Hello,

I am trying to create a login feature for my game. The user would type in a userid and password and then click a button. I understand how to create a button and how to handle the click event. But how do I create a textbox? Is there an easy way to do this or do I have to create my own images, check if the mouse is over the textbox and then catch the keystroke events and populate a string and show it in the textbox? Seems like a lot of work...

Please let me know.

Regards,

Doriel

Use Inkey - it acts like a textbox. In the manual lookup "Inkey" and it will have all the help you need Or this may help:

String EntryString;
..

Text DisplayText
{
Pos_X = 5;
Pos_Y = 5;
Layer = 1;
String = EntryString;
}

Then in the appropiate spot add (and make the TEXT visible also):

Inkey(EntryString); // wait until [enter] pressed
if (result == 13)
{
//Do something here
}

It is NOT tested but hopefully works

Adoado.

Ok. I have two textboxes and am able to get input from the keyboard using the inkey function. However, I have a slight problem. If the user clicks on a textbox (i have a button that triggers a function), I call the inkey function to start the input. If the user clicks on the textbox again, the program crashes because inkey is already active. So what I tried doing is first deactivating the input and then starting it up again by using the following:

inkey_active = off;

However, I am noticing that this isn't working properly. Did anyone else have this problem? According to the manual and the code I've seen, it should work.

inkey_active works for me.
But in your case i think it's better not to do anything if the inkey is already active

Try this (had worked for me)

if(inkey_active==1)
{
inkey_active=0;
wait(1);
}
...

Regards
TSGames

Alright. I tried everything and still not working. It keeps crashing. Here is a code snippet. What am I missing?




string userid = "123456789123"; // max length of 12
string password = "123456789123"; // max length of 12

FONT login_font = "Verdana", 2, 18;

TEXT userid_txt
{
Pos_x = 480;
Pos_y = 363;
layer = 6;
red = 0;
green = 0;
blue = 0;
font = login_font;
String = userid;
}

TEXT password_txt
{
Pos_x = 480;
Pos_y = 388;
layer = 6;
red = 0;
green = 0;
blue = 0;
font = login_font;
String = password;
}

function enterUserName()
{
if(inkey_active == 1)
{
inkey_active = 0;
}
userid_txt.visible = ON;
Inkey(userid);
}


function enterPassword()
{
if(inkey_active == 1)
{
inkey_active = 0;
}
password_txt.visible = ON;
Inkey(password);
}

Panel start_pan
{
bmap = "Login.bmp";
button(475, 363, "Textbox.bmp", "Textbox.bmp", "Textbox.bmp", enterUserName, NULL, NULL);
button(475, 388, "Textbox.bmp", "Textbox.bmp", "Textbox.bmp", enterPassword, NULL, NULL);
layer = 5;
flags = VISIBLE, OVERLAY;
}


The goal is to have two textboxes (buttons) and when you click on one, it will start the input. When the user clicks on the other one, the input will be for that string. Got it?

Please try it and let me know what i'm doing wrong. The thing that's happening is for me is that after I click on the first textbox and enter a string and then click on the second one, I see two blinking bars, one for each textbox. However, when I type, it's still going to the first string. And as soon as I click ESC or TAB, the program just freezes and I have to reboot my pc.


Thanks in advance,

Doriel

Ah, I got it. I was missing the wait(1); after the inkey_active=0; line. Makes a world of difference. It works now!

Thanks guys!