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Newcomers DBPro Corner / Replacing Letters with "*"

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Mattman
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Posted: 14th Jul 2003 01:58 Edited at: 14th Jul 2003 01:59
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is there a way to replace letters with stars? i did this:



and the stars are on seperate lines. is there a way to keep them on the same line? Would i have to keep seting the cursor?

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cusoi
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Posted: 14th Jul 2003 02:27
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I thought you could use print "*"; The ; takes care of the one line thingie.

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cusoi
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Posted: 14th Jul 2003 02:30
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Here it is! Just made without testing it, so I don't know if it fully works.

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Troan
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Posted: 14th Jul 2003 19:24
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try hinding what u input in black(or what ever the bacground is)
and print "*" every time u type

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Troan
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Posted: 14th Jul 2003 19:55
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hmm heres simple one (with added colors ) but it dosnt show stars till after typing


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cusoi
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Posted: 15th Jul 2003 12:42
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But Troan, mine is working too! Why do you post another one?

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cusoi
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Posted: 15th Jul 2003 12:43
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But Troan, mine is working too! Why do you post another one? And mine does show stars.

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Ishamael Sedai
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Posted: 15th Jul 2003 17:48
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Quote: "
Function SpriteText Input(prompt$,x,y,W,H,N,BMP,cursor$)
backdrop on
repeat
if scancode()=14
cls
long = Len(Txt$)-1
Txt$ = LEFT$(Txt$,long)
goto skip
endif
Txt$ = Txt$ + inkey$()
skip:
for i = 1 to 5
if i = 1 then Spritetext (prompt$ + txt$ + cursor$,x,y,w,h,n,bmp)
if i = 2 then Spritetext (prompt$ + txt$ + cursor$,x,y,w,h,n,bmp)
if i = 3 then Spritetext (prompt$ + txt$,x,y,w,h,n,bmp)
if i = 4 then Spritetext (prompt$ + txt$,x,y,w,h,n,bmp)
if i = 5 then Spritetext (prompt$ + txt$,x,y,w,h,n,bmp)
sync
next i
until returnkey()=1
endfunction txt$"


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Troan
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Posted: 15th Jul 2003 20:20
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@ RTSpider
i know but mines all corlorfull =)
and thiers more than one way to do stuff

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cusoi
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Posted: 15th Jul 2003 21:28 Edited at: 15th Jul 2003 21:29
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Yeah, that's right
But I don't think it will be possible to show stars while typing when you use the input command.

EDIT: I edited some typo's.

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