Player input?

Author	Topic: Player input?
mrb Apprentice Member # 3517	written Wednesday, June 23 2004 23:26 Profile #0 Am I correct that there is no way to capture input from the player for subsequent use? The get_text_response(str) just stores a string for later comparison using check_text_response(str). In other words, we can only ckeck if the response matches a predetermined string. Is that all we have available? Thanks, mrb Posts: 40 | Registered: Sunday, October 5 2003 07:00
Icshi Mongolian Barbeque Member # 1528	written Thursday, June 24 2004 09:49 Profile #1 You might try to set a Stuff Done Flag if you get the desired input with check_text_response call. Then later, if you want to check if they had gotten the correct response earlier, you can just have it check that SDF. EDIT: But if you want to actually store a specific string of text for later use, I don't know a way of doing it. [ Thursday, June 24, 2004 09:53: Message edited by: Icshi ] Posts: 907 | Registered: Monday, July 15 2002 07:00
Max Power Apprentice Member # 4432	written Thursday, June 24 2004 15:56 Profile #2 You could encode the string into a series of SDFs using some kind of cryptography algorithm. This is just a matter of transforming the string of characters into a string of numbers, then storing those numbers in some ingenious way. How many different values can an SDF take? It might take a lot of SDFs to store any kind of long string, but it's theoretically doable. EDIT: I just re-read this and realized I'm completely wrong. Unless you have some way of actually examining the contents of the input string (beyond a simple boolean comparison with some other string), then this won't work. [ Thursday, June 24, 2004 15:58: Message edited by: Max Power ] -------------------- He's the man Whose name you'd love to touch, But you musn't touuuuuuch... Posts: 19 | Registered: Thursday, May 27 2004 07:00
Kiexcolo Warrior Member # 4492	written Thursday, June 24 2004 19:45 Profile #3 Yup, unfortunately VOID get_text_response(char top_text) doesn't return anything so you can't make a string to copy it. Unless you study the actual coding and find the actual variable used to store the array of characters, then you might be able to make a copy and save it as a global or pointer or whatever but whether this messes up everything I have no idea. I think this is the call but I'm not sure. Check keydlgs.c for actual coding. Theres a lot of unknowns in its coding so I'm not giving any more suggestions. void get_str_dlog(char *start_str,char *header_str,char *response,Boolean string_string = FALSE); [ Thursday, June 24, 2004 20:01: Message edited by: Kiexcolo ] Posts: 61 | Registered: Wednesday, June 9 2004 07:00
mrb Apprentice Member # 3517	written Thursday, June 24 2004 21:18 Profile #4 Thanks K., I believe you've found the right function, and it can easily be made to return a string value etc - the problem of course is that BoA won't recognize it. I really do wish we had some user input :-(. Thanks to all. mrb Posts: 40 | Registered: Sunday, October 5 2003 07:00
mrb Apprentice Member # 3517	written Thursday, June 24 2004 21:29 Profile #5 We can use get_buffer_text(strvar). Of course, this is just to manipulate the str buffer and perhaps extend it a bit. Why no capturable user input? Regards, mrb Posts: 40 | Registered: Sunday, October 5 2003 07:00