Textbox in game

[Von66341]

Hey!

Does anyone know if it is possible to create a textbox function in the game?

Thanks!

[smoth]

Which game?

[SinbadEV]

I believe he is referring to his own game.

Short answer "Probably, Lua can do pretty much anything."

[smoth]

Ah well 4 choices, in order of my belief best to worst.
Chili, redui, iceui, raw lua. The ones prior to raw lua are ui frameworks designed to make such elements easier.

[knorke]

easiest is to use the chat, see Argh's post in that thread: http://springrts.com/phpbb/viewtopic.php?f=23&t=24431

there are numerous threads on "Custom GUI?" where you can read up on which framework is best and find some help to set them up* It is a tradition that at least one superlong post of infolog errors must be posted.


*haha you did not really believe that did you?
http://answers.springlobby.info/questio ... -developed

[adamden02]

What game do you say ?

[Von66341]

Doing experimentation in my own game.

I tried the chat method.
I manage to shift the infromation in the chat console to a new moveable menu.

Does anyone know how I could shift the line: '' Say: .." as well?

Thanks.

[knorke]

Does anyone know how I could shift the line: '' Say: .." as well?

dont think it is possible.
if your plan is to move the say: line over some textfield graphic then thats a bad idea imo.
Not checking for text length for one thing.

Here is some thread about making your own text inputbox from another game:
http://love2d.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=1820
Something similiar would work in spring too.
Basically

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widget:KeyPressed(key)
 input = input .. key
end

[Von66341]

I did a small testing on this.
Basically if I key cltr the spring.echo will be display.

include("keysym.h.lua")
function widget:KeyPress(key,mods,isRepeat,label,unicode)
if key == KEYSYMS.LCTRL then
Spring.Echo(" Left Clrt")
end
end

Hence if am thinking of display in a specific box?
I should draw the box and use glText to write the message?
I would need an array to story the specific alphabelt as well?

What about things like backspace and enter?

Am using a game to study on decision making and learning.
Majority parts to game are from Spring 1944 and it also includes other free licence scripts and stuff from other games.

[knorke]

I should draw the box and use glText to write the message?

thats what i would do. chili probally has something more "finished"

I would need an array to story the specific alphabelt as well?

you need some way to convert the keycode numbers to letters. Array would work.
Not sure what spring/lua has to offer for that, might be an easier way.

What about things like backspace and enter?

see the l├Âve thread, it has some stuff on how to delete last letter on backspace etc.

[Google_Frog]

Does anyone know how I could shift the line: '' Say: .." as well?

I am sure this can be done, Zero-K does it.

[Von66341]

I just played zero k.

The line 'Say: ..' is not shifted.

[Von66341]

I manage to get a testing text box to work.

Code as following:

function widget:KeyPress(key,mods,isRepeat,label,unicode)
if key == KEYSYMS.BACKSPACE then
input = string.sub(input,1,-2)
else if key == KEYSYMS.SPACE then
input = input .. " "
else if key then
input = input = input .. label
end

But when key keys like H, I and Enter the default shortcut key will run, is there a way to disable this shortcut key when the player is keying inside the textbox?

Is there a way to clear the screen?
For e.g. i got a gl.Rect(x1,y1,x2,y2)
then if the timer reaches a certain timing, I want to replace the previous drawn rectangle to gl.Rect(a1,b1,a2,b2). Will this be possible?

[CarRepairer]

I would just move the existing text input, see chilichat.