text attribute

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text attribute

The text associated with the component. The values vary according to the component type as follows:

Component Type	text
Dialog	title of window
Frame	title of window
MenuBar	#menubar
MenuItem	label of menu item

For menu items, you can specify an access key in the label by placing an ampersand (&) before the character to be used as the key. For example, to specify F as the access key for "File", you should specify the label as "&File". The character that follows the ampersand in a label is also known as the mnemonic of the menu item. The label for a menu separator is a dash ( -).

text
Access	read-write
Returns	String
Set throws	WindowException INVALID_MODIFICATION_ERR: Raised if the new text is not valid for the component. NO_MODIFICATION_ALLOWED_ERR: Raised if the text of the component cannot be modified.