yeah and also the text box is too limited without options, like: text selected > then >change to > "" this is something working at the perfection with Fusion 2.5 and text boxes, but in construct 2 we have tons of little limitations who make things more complex to achieve !

you can do whatever you wan with the keys you just need to give the right formula position in X to the blinking cursor ! and you can also play with x,y and scale too ( for a selection

square for example)

if you add an event every tick left key down, then you can change the formula for the blinking cursor and it works every time !

if you did a mistake in your text dont use left but just use backspace, that's what i do and it remove the wrong letter (like in the video)

for example if i type something wrong in my app i just added a function "enter" erase everything typed in text box and then you restart typing

why you want to keep the left key down when you are typing ????

i shared a video

i was trying to show you a video but i dont have a record sofware, but it works ! you just need to change the values i explained. with my basic one line+ blinking sprite a i can go at the end of teh screen right side, then move back and correct my text, cursor follow what i do if i change on letter or more etc.

values to change: Every Tick > "spritename" > set text_user.TextWidth+len(text_user.Text)+110

change then by adding the "left key" and change the values "spritename" > set text_user.TextWidth+len(text_user.Text)+110

i did a video for you:

https://streamable.com/bvv4v

is the textbox object if you want to select the text, but i dont need it, you can change the scale to the mouse position x +len(text_user.Text) maybe im going to test it but everything works , perfectly

for Left, Right, End, Home you can add a function move to but for my need i dont use it because i just use one text line, no multiline

i can now make everything appear and be animated by just typing somme commands my first basic gui interface.

full size: http://oi66.tinypic.com/25hmgpt.jpg

Thanks so much brunopalermo

hi

in my app i added the event on any key pressed audio play "sfx".

but the problem is the sound "ogg" is not played, it's only played if i push the key "ENTER"

how to make the sound play for any key?

FOUND!!!

the right formula IS:

Every Tick > "spritename" > set text_user.TextWidth+len(text_user.Text)+110

and my sprite follow what i type at screen

if you change this "+110" by another number this will change the space between the last typed letter/space etc and the blinking cursor, for the blinking effect i used the flash behaviour set to 0.5