text input

text input

Sam (guest) 30 Jul 2013 08:56

how would you possible get text input from a user,

Re: text input

Emblis 01 Aug 2013 22:36

XNA does not incorporate this, so you have to write the code yourself. Fortunately, it does not require much work.

public class KeyBoardHandler
    {
        KeyboardState oldstate;
        KeyboardState currentstate;
        public string Typed = "";

        public KeyBoardHandler()
        {
            currentstate = Keyboard.GetState();
        }

        public void Update()
        {
            oldstate = currentstate;
            currentstate = Keyboard.GetState();

            //check if any of the previous update's keys are no longer pressed
            foreach (Keys key in currentstate.GetPressedKeys())
            {
                if (oldstate.IsKeyUp(key))
                    writeKeyToString(key);
            }
        }

        private void writeKeyToString(Keys key)
        {
            Typed += key.ToString();
        }
    }

You probably want to add logic to see if it is an actual letter that is typed since this code will pick up ALL keyboard inputs and write them to the string. Space for example is not written as " " instead this code write it as "Space".

Hope this will help get you started! :D

Last edited on 01 Aug 2013 22:51 by Emblis Show more

Sam (guest) 08 Aug 2013 08:27

ill give it ago thanks