Keyboard Help

[Nobody]

I have the code to display the keyboard (PA_InitKeyboard), but i don't know how to get it to output the text. Also i want to check if certain text was typed, i found the function (PA_CheckKeyboard), which checks if the keyboard is being used and returns the letter, but i don't know how to use it to check the text, and declare what it is looking for. Someone please help! This is important because i'm making a project that teaches people how to use DSGM, and this is a crucial part of the simulator.

[JanMulder]

Declare a char array named text. Declare an int variable named place.
Init the keyboard in a Create Event.
Then in the Step Event:
If Stylus.Newpress
Set Variable text[place] to PA_CheckKeyboard()
Set Variable place to place+1
Draw String text //and some coordinates.

I'm not really experienced with DSGM 5 but something like this will work.

[Nobody]

I tried, but i keep failing. Could someone please help me. Maybe post a DSGM file someone? Well here's what i tried.

[thedark]

i have the same trouble...
can anyone make a working keyboard in dsgm.
i need it for a new program.
i came as far as nobody did only got log numbers but no letters.

please help !!

[Nobody]

Can anyone please help? Sorry if i'm inpatient. It's just i spent like 10 hours already pouring stuff into the game for the DSGM Helper tool i'm making, and without the keyboard, it just isn't the same.

[JanMulder]

I'm not really using DSGM 5, so I'm not opening the .dsgm file. It should work the way I posted.

[thedark]

sorry jan it wont work so as you told him to type the commands.

i have the same trouble and als do not got it to work.
the only thing is what i got ar numbers like 126701325 and so on or just 1 number 1 to x

but no text and also no delete ,ruturns ,tabs, backspace etc...

so please, any who can help us...

[Nobody]

the only thing is what i got ar numbers like 126701325

That was the most i could get out of it too. It's frustrating

[JanMulder]

Still it should work!

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char text[100];
int place = 0;
if (Pad.Newpress.A) {
PA_InitKeyboard(1);
PA_KeyboardIn(0,0);
}
if (Stylus.Newpress) {
text[place] = PA_CheckKeyboard();
place++;
}
PA_OutputText(1,0,0,"%s",text);


This is it basically, without backspace.

[Nobody]

I can't even get the code you just uploaded to compile right

[JanMulder]

That's because it's C code. And the first two lines belong out of the while loop.

[Nobody]

I don't quite understand what to do with it. It might be your directions are confusing, or I just don't know what i'm doing. I'm not a programmer either in any language, so hopefully I'm going to start learning how to program eventually.

[thedark]

ehm,
only one letter is showing up, after 10 keys rom crashes.

i think there is somthing missing.
its looks almost working but it is not o.k. yet.
and i do not know how to make a "while(1)" , return(0) or a loop in dsgm 5.12
can you upload a working dsgm file as i can see what its look like (no code)

thanks
tonny

[JanMulder]

Well, you guys kind of fail. I did exactly as I said and it worked:

KeyboardTest.dsgm

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[Nobody]

Well, you guys kind of fail. I did exactly as I said and it worked

Well that's what happens when you give noobs a task with little instructions that is in code, which we can't understand in the first place.

Well thank you for your time, but how could you latter rig this so you could backspace, shift, tab, and caps lock correctly without implementing blank spaces everywhere as a value???????? Also, how would i check what is outputted to see if someone outputted the right text?

P.S. With this i can finally get back to working on my game that teaches people how to use DSGM.

[JanMulder]

I didn't only write it in code. I wrote it down in DSGM language in the first place.

[thedark]

hey, i added some sound and a vieuw extra PAlib commands to it.

going to work on the extra funktions from here.

if finished its a nice tutorial item.

thanks to jan mulder..

[Nobody]

Well it still confused me

[thedark]

what do you not understand on this?

[Nobody]

No, i get it. I was commenting back to JanMulder's post.

I didn't only write it in code. I wrote it down in DSGM language in the first place.

Kinda forgot to do the quote thing.