Input String

[Meatballsub]

I'm trying to figure out a way to allow the player to input something into a string and the string save that information. I don't think I've been successful as of yet.

Is the input string command what I should be working with to make this happen? If so, I must be using it wrong. This is what I got...

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script,alminegate,begin
	suspend player
	show textbox (1191)
	wait for textbox
	clear string (4)
	append number (4,135)
	show textbox (1194)
	wait (15)
	advance text box
	input string (5, 2)
	if (string compare (4,5) == true) then (
		show textbox (1193)
		wait for textbox)
	else (
		show textbox (1)
		wait for textbox)
	clear string (5)
	resume player
end

[msw188]

Well, right now string 4 has the ascii rep of the number 135, but you are only allowing the player to input two characters into string 5:

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input string (5,2)

The second argument of input string is the max length allowed to be input by the player. What was this 2 supposed to be accomplishing?

[Meatballsub]

It's actually 3, sorry. I allowed only two to be entered briefly to test something and forgot to put it back to 3. Even with three it doesn't work for me though.

[TMC]

The problem is with stringcompare. It turns out that it return -1 (which is the value freebasic uses for 'true') instead of 1 which is the value of the 'true' constant. Get rid of the "== true". While this is a bug in stringcompare which I'll fix, in general writing "== true" is not a great idea, because it's pointless and there might be more commands with this problem.

[Pepsi Ranger]

If you're using numbers, you might be better off using "number from string." This command reads numbers the way that "input string" reads words, except that you're storing the number directly into a variable.

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input string (4,3,true,false,195,175)
youranswer := number from string (4,-1)
if (youranswer==myanswer) then(
#eliminate the complicated middleman
)
end

[Meatballsub]

That did the trick guys, thanks!