<function name="SetText" parent="Panel" type="classfunc"> <description> Sets the text value of a panel object containing text, such as a <page>Label</page>, <page>TextEntry</page> or <page>RichText</page> and their derivatives, such as <page>DLabel</page>, <page>DTextEntry</page> or <page>DButton</page>. <warning>When used on a <page>Label</page> or its derivatives ( <page>DLabel</page> and <page>DButton</page> ), it will automatically call <page>Panel:InvalidateLayout</page>, meaning that you should avoid running this function every frame on these panels to avoid unnecessary performance loss.</warning> ⤶ <warning><page>Label</page> & its derivatives has hard length limit, maximum 1023 ascii characters.</warning>⤶ ⤶ ⤶ </description> <realm>Client and Menu</realm> <args> <arg name="text" type="string">The text value to set.</arg> </args> </function> <example> <description>Creates a <page>RichText</page> element and sets the text to a localized string; the default VAC rejection message.</description> <code> -- Window frame for the RichText TextFrame = vgui.Create("DFrame") TextFrame:SetSize(250, 150) TextFrame:Center() TextFrame:SetTitle("#VAC_ConnectionRefusedTitle") -- Results in "Connection Refused - VAC" -- RichText panel local richtext = vgui.Create("RichText", TextFrame) richtext:Dock(FILL) -- Set the text to the message you get when VAC banned richtext:SetText("#VAC_ConnectionRefusedDetail") </code> <output><image src="RichText_SetText_example1.png"/></output> </example>