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AppGameKit Classic Chat / EditBox: find the point at which a change was made

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Jambo B
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Posted: 26th Jul 2015 14:54
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Hi all,

I'm doing a lot of messing around with strings, and I'm trying to find the point in a string at which a change was made by the user.

What I really need is a command like GetEditBoxCursorPosition() - can't believe that's not there!

I've tried comparing the string from the edit box and the string stored in a variable, to locate the character index at which they become different, but this doesn't work if the strings contain more than one occurrence of the same letter together.

e.g.

Old string: abcdddddddefgh
New string: abcddddddddefgh

Impossible to tell where the extra 'd' was added!

Can anyone think of a solution?

Thanks,

James
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BatVink
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Posted: 26th Jul 2015 15:40
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You really need that missing command!

How about this...

I was trying to think of a way to encode a second copy to compare against, but I don't think it is possible.

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Markus
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hmm, i think u need to handle the input self and display it like a editbox.

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Jambo B
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Posted: 27th Jul 2015 12:40
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Thanks BatVink and Markus. I've been racking my brains to think of a way to do it, and the only thing I've come up with is Markus' suggestion of writing my own edit box.

That's problematic in itself - if I want to release my app on iOS and Android, my edit box would have to behave itself on those OSes as well. I could spend weeks on that!

Paul (if you're reading this!) please would you add that missing command?! I'm a bit stuck without it!

James
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Posted: 27th Jul 2015 13:09 Edited at: 27th Jul 2015 13:11
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it is possible to track the key input.
track the length of the word then every time the left or right key is pressed you can have a variable telling you the position of the cursor...(I think)
eg if you type a 5 letter word, then press the left key once, you will know that the cursor is at position 4 by taking the word length and subtracting the amount of times the left key has been pressed.


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Posted: 27th Jul 2015 13:49
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The problem is that you can change the cursor position with touch/mouse. At that point you can't retrieve the position.

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one idea i have is to overwrite the position with your value each sync
but i don't know if this works well.
SetEditBoxCursorPosition ( index, pos )

@Rickynzx
do not forget you can move the cursor with mouse hit or touch.

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