Text Input from User help?

agarciap

Hi everyone,

I'm a newbie in programming in general, and in haxeflixel in particular. I need users to input text (just their names) by typing. I know that both FlxUIInputText and openfl.text.Textfield can be used for this purpose, but I'm completely lost as to how to proceed. I can create the text field alright with FlxUIInputText, but I can't seem to be able to do anything else beyond that. I was wondering if there are any tutorials or examples I can use to guide me in how to do it, because I'm completely new to this, and I've been unable to find any examples. I assume it's really simple, but I'm really new to programming and need a lot of help.
Thanks in advance!

Gama11

Here's a simple example of a PlayState that "does something" with the text that has been entered. It traces it to the console when the "Submit" button is pressed (I'd assume you'd have a button like that on an "enter name" screen).

package;

import flixel.FlxState;
import flixel.addons.ui.FlxUIInputText;
import flixel.ui.FlxButton;

class PlayState extends FlxState
{
	override public function create():Void
	{
		super.create();
		var inputText = new FlxUIInputText();
		inputText.screenCenter();
		add(inputText);

		var submitButton = new FlxButton(0, 0, "Submit", function() {
			trace("Text is " + inputText.text);
		});
		submitButton.screenCenter();
		submitButton.y += 25;
		add(submitButton);
	}
}

agarciap

@Gama11 Thanks a lot, this is very helpful!!