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DarkBASIC Professional Discussion / buffered typing thingymajig

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adr
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Posted: 20th Oct 2003 15:41
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Supposing I wanted people to be able to type stuff in the game engine (so I'd be using textured plains/sprites to render the text, not the standard input commands)...

While I could easily do the only-do-this-once-while-that-key-is-pressed method, it stops people typing naturally - You can only hit one key at once. Is there a buffered, non-repeating string store somewhere in dbp?

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Posted: 20th Oct 2003 17:37
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Just detect a scancode, and if one is detected, (perhaps) convert it to ASCII and then use a sprite to display it.


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Posted: 20th Oct 2003 21:15
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You can get the keyboard buffer (standard text keys only) by using ENTRY$() and clear the buffer down using CLEAR ENTRY BUFFER
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Posted: 22nd Oct 2003 00:31 Edited at: 22nd Oct 2003 00:32
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Quote: "Just detect a scancode, and if one is detected, (perhaps) convert it to ASCII and then use a sprite to display it."


But it will output that sprite per sync.

Quote: "You can get the keyboard buffer (standard text keys only) by using ENTRY$() and clear the buffer down using CLEAR ENTRY BUFFER"


Hooray - that's the one

Cheers Mr M.

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