How do I make a text input with spritefont ?

Hello !

My game uses spritefonts.

In a certain part of the game, user has to enter a text that will then remain on screen.

I need to make a input text method so that the user sees what he enters everytime he taps a keyboard key. Number of characters also has to be constraint;

I was thinking about using a invisible textimput and a routine adding a character averytime a new one is entered in the text box.

Unfortunately, I'm notskilled enough for that.

anyone has an idea ?

thanks !

I am sure you can do it with an invisible text box, but the text box has to be on screen and set invisible via CSS.

Just set textbox.text and Sprite font.text to something like this left(TextBox.Text,100) will limit it to 100 characters.

For touch input I created my own keyboard, was more reliable than textbox, one sprite object with all images of all keys, each has its own instance variable that matches the array holding the alphabet, so when you press a key, or actually touch sprite with instance var of 0, it will add letter A to your Sprite font text. because position 0 in the array holds a value of "A"

Thank you ! Do you have a exemple cap you can send me ? No idea about how to do it...

I only have that in the actual full game.

Maybe if I have some time later I can copy just that part

Please that would be nice !

Thank you !

Here is a tutorial for C2. Maybe that helps:

construct.net/en/tutorials/text-input-using-textbox-and-384

> So far, I saw that when keyboard appears, the game scene shrinks

Yeah, one of the reasons I designed my own keyboard. On some phones it would shrink and stay that way even after the android keyboard retracted

That's why I'm most interested in your code :)

Here is a demo of text input with spritefont and a blinking cursor:

Sorry for the late answer !!

thank you very much for this demo ! I'll try to add a listener for Enter key to allow a newline.

As for the keyboard, unfortunately, it is an english one and I need french special characters