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Newcomers DBPro Corner / INPUT text positioning

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Alvind
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Posted: 21st Dec 2013 22:31
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Hi guys is there any way I can place the input typed in by the player on a x/y parameters rather than it appearing in the top left by default?

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MrValentine
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Posted: 22nd Dec 2013 00:05
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Look at TEXT Ccommand

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Phaelax
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Posted: 22nd Dec 2013 08:15 Edited at: 22nd Dec 2013 08:15
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Text command won't help him if he's using INPUT. For that, Alvin, you can set it's position by using SET CURSOR x, y



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MrValentine
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Posted: 22nd Dec 2013 09:28
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Ah, I was not focussing at the time, my apologies!

Thanks Phaelax!

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Alvind
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Posted: 22nd Dec 2013 13:48
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That's exactly what I was after Phaelax TY!

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The Tall Man
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Posted: 22nd Dec 2013 18:05
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I haven't used DarkBasic, but I got started with other BASICs. What I would do when I had that need is use the GETCHAR and PRINT commands. With GETCHAR, your income comes one character at a time, and it's up to you to translate it into a number if that's what you need it for, and so on. So if DarkBasic has a GETCHAR or GetKEY or INKEY or something like think. In DarkGDK, there's a dbEntry$ command that might be an alternative to INPUT. Perhaps a DarkBasic version is ENTRY or something like that.

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Phaelax
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Posted: 24th Dec 2013 04:12
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The commands you see in DarkGDK are basically the same name as the DBP commands. So yes there is an entry command if you wish to manually grab and c;lear the input from the buffer.

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Posted: 1st Jan 2014 16:38 Edited at: 1st Jan 2014 19:17
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The command entry$() returns the contents of the keyboard buffer. Input is fine for basic entry but it halts the program, so when you need to get input from the keyboard dynamically you will need to use the keyboard entry buffer.

I wrote this to peek at the entry buffer



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