Typing/Recognizing Cheats?

Hey people!

I was trying to make something like this:

• The player hits ENTER
• types in password (ex: opossum)(the textbox will be hidden)
• hits ENTER again to confirm
• game does something

I found this tutorial but couldn't understand it at all.

scirra.com/tutorials/356/how-to-make-cheats-into-your-game/page-1

Can anyone help me with the text box and how it works?

For example when I set:

Global Variable - Cheat (Initial value -1)

On ENTER pressed >>> set Cheat*(-1)

Cheat 1 >>> set Textbox focus

Cheat -1 >>> set Textbox Disable

When I press ENTER first, i can type in the text box, but after I press ENTER again it doesn't disable it. It works with F10 but not with ENTER for some reason.

There's a similar way you can make a toggle switch:

+on enter pressed

     >set Cheat to 1-Cheat

This will make Cheat flip between 1 and 0 on every press

Anyway, that tutorial wasn't really clear at all.. so I made a cap, it also checks to see if the typed word matches any of the cheat words.

link

Thank you very much keepee for the prompt and informative reply. I need to learn some of the stuff used in the eventsheet though :D

works great, thanks again!

no worries

you can read up about repeat loops, and token() expressions in the manual. They'll explain it better than me