Type your name?

I'm trying to make a name entry screen at the beginning of my game where the player... types their name. I'd rather not do the select-a-letter ala old school if I can help it. Ideally I'd like the name to show up on the screen as they're typing it and then store the name somewhere. Also, when I do get the name how do I get it to show up in my text?

A little help for the lost please?

Quick and dirty example.

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1646976/textinput.cap

Name is stored as a Global Variable 'Name'.

Hope it helps

Hum.

Useful, though having to click on the screen in a game with no other mouse "stuff" is a bit out of context. Is there a way to have it clicked by default?

Yes.

On the start of layout event add Edit Box: Focus On.

You could delete the first action in the start of layout event if you want the edit box to be blank, to save having to delete the default 'No Name'.

Or add the action Editbox: Select All so as soon as a letter is typed the default text is deleted automatically.

**EDIT**

I've updated the example in my first post.

That should do it. Thanks!