Currently, if you e.g. want to type in "^^" with inchar, it only returns "^" as it always only returns one character. It would be nice if inchar could return both characters.

Also, it seems that inkey_active doesn't affect inchar. So it would be nice if there was an inchar_active. In the current LBGUI demo, if you go to the editbox demo and click the LBGUI editbox first, and then click somewhere else with the mouse, you can't activate the inkey editbox without pressing any key that inchar accepts as a character. This would be fixed with an inchar_active OR making inkey react to inkey_active = 0.

Bump. I'm not asking for anything undoable, am I?

inchar can not return two characters, but we'll find a solution.

Ok, thanks.
But what about the inchar_active?

Hi,
is there going to be a solution for the double characters soon?

The solution is using inkey, not inchar, and checking the number of entered characters.

Well, that's IMO a rather ugly solution and would require big changes in my code.
Also, that's something I also could have done before. And this would kinda defy the purpose of the inchar key, which I thought was to make an own input method.

How about this: You create a global string that will be filled with the multiple characters inchar can't return. Would that be possible?

Doesn't inchar already imply that it only returns one character? Why should that be changed when there is inkey for the purpose of capturing longer input?

Yes, inkey is obviously the function with the global string that you want.

Ok, I guess I'll have to use inkey then, if I want to be able to type in "^^"...

Btw, jcl, now that I used the Watched Topic feature and get an email with your original post, I realize how often you edit your posts. You originally said:


Other than inchar, inkey doesn't return after each character, but pauses the function till it's finished. So it requires an other function that always keeps running. Also, I won't be able to handle backspaces etc. so easily, especially if I want to be able to block them. So I kinda disagree on the 5 minutes...