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A simple textbox

Started by Antonym Jul 5, 2010 at 6:13 AM 3 replies 4.7k views

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Jul 5, 2010 at 6:13 AM

So I am writing a tetris and I am about done, last thing missing is a textbox for the player to type in his or her name.

I've read writing a general purpose textbox can be hell, I am thinking about using a library, though I am not sure which one to pick, don't want to blow things out of proportion.

I want to keep things as simple as possible, any ideas about what would be the simplest/quickest solution?

It's being developed in c++ with openGL and SFML. I am trying to keep things portable though I am willing to make sacrifices.

Any info is much appreciated.

Gage64

Jul 5, 2010 at 6:26 AM

If you just want to read a string of text, it might be simpler to read the characters directly using events.

Each time you detect a keypress that's a character, you append the character to a string. When you detect that Enter was pressed (or something similar), you know you've read the full name.

A google search for "sfml gui" also gave this, which might be useful to you.

Antonym

Jul 5, 2010 at 6:51 AM

Thanks for the reply.

One feature I would like the text box to have is being able to delete text, guess this can be accomplished manually with SFML's Key Pressed too though.

Gage64

Jul 5, 2010 at 6:53 AM

You can detect that a backspace is being pressed, and then remove the last character from the string.

Antonym

Jul 5, 2010 at 6:54 AM

Yeah that's what I meant.

For future reference, what would be a good option if I wanted a fully functional text box?

Edit: Just noticed that it gets buggy if I click non-character keys :S.

Thanks.

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