invisible colourback

[Tubs]

i want to make the background of text that the user enters have invisible colourback (like font.draw)

is this possible? how?

[Asok]

simple use Font.Draw to display what the user is typing

something like

code:

var x, y : int := 100 var fontId : int := Font.New ("Arial:12") var ch : string (1) loop     getch (ch)     Font.Draw (ch, x, y, fontId, black)     x += 10 end loop

[Homer_simpson]

you might wanna replace the

code:

x+= 10

with

code:

x += Font.Width (ch, fontId)

[Tubs]

ya that displays it but i also want what they enter to be a variable

[Solo]

code:

var x, y : int := 100 var fontId : int := Font.New ("Arial:12") var ch : string (1) var word : string := "" loop     getch (ch)     exit when ord (ch) = 10     Font.Draw (ch, x, y, fontId, black)     x += Font.Width (ch, fontId)     word += ch end loop

The Variable it gets stored in is word, this also outputs it to the screen.

Enter ends the loop and stops adding to the variable.

[Tubs]

what does += mean?

[Blade]

you are adding something together or adding something to a string. in an integer it will add the value and with a string it will add on a character. so
in x = 3
x+=2 will = 5
means the same thing as
x:=x+5

just a shortcut..

[Tubs]

how can i make the backspace key work? all it does is put a box on the screen

[Homer_simpson]

take a look at my custom created text box (located at turing submittions -> custom created GUI) i have used a method to do that...
i'm at school right now but i'll tell u how to do it exactly when i get home