I need help Setting up a Typing program, got any Ideas?
Posted: Mon Jan 29, 2007 3:49 pm
by Troodon
One idea:
Make a big text actor and make it allow "input"
Then add save and load functions to save/load the text text.
Posted: Mon Jan 29, 2007 4:52 pm
by Sgt. Sparky
what do you mean?
Posted: Mon Jan 29, 2007 4:59 pm
by Troodon
Make a text actor and make it input one. So you will have a place to type.
(Like the big white square in WordPad)
Posted: Tue Jan 30, 2007 12:05 am
by Sgt. Sparky
argh, what I mean is how to you set input.
Posted: Tue Jan 30, 2007 12:14 am
by morcior
its an option when you make a text actor.
my personal advice: give up :p
lack of word wrapping and only having the C string handling methods available makes working with any long texts a pain in GE. These can be overcome by using a fixed width font and writing some more useful string methods I guess, it just depends how much work you want to do!
Posted: Tue Jan 30, 2007 12:17 am
by Sgt. Sparky
I do not care how much work if you allways give up you will never be able to accomplish things ^_^
Posted: Tue Jan 30, 2007 12:19 am
by morcior
hehe, well I agree with you, however I don't think the work involved would be worth the result. I made a post in feature suggestions about including a boundary box for text areas which would make this all much easier so I recommend backing up my idea in the features forum or whatever its called