I can't create a text box

[rusbelito]

I'm trying to create a textbox. Try using some guides from previous forums but I think they are too old and outdated, download the SUIT .zip file from this place "https://suit.readthedocs.io/en/latest/index. html # suit-up "
since I saw that I had several additional tools in addition to the textbox but I have not been able to use or implement it, could you help me and learn how it works? or if there is simply a better way to create a textbox, thank you very much for your attention: 3

[milon]

When you say textbox, do you mean the text you print onscreen for the player? Or are you talking about collecting text from the player?

[GVovkiv]

I guess it's better to implement your own text box, because this library kinda bad
Here, simple example of how you can make your own textbox:

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local string = "Hello, World!"
local font = love.graphics.getFont()
local strw = font:getWidth(string)
local strh = font:getHeight(string)

function love.draw()
  local mx, my = love.mouse.getPosition()
  love.graphics.setColor(1, 1, 1, 0.2)
  love.graphics.rectangle("fill", mx, my, strw * 2, strh * 2)
  love.graphics.setColor(1, 1, 1, 1)
  love.graphics.print(string, mx + strw / 2, my + strh / 2)
end

[togFox]

This has me thinking now - I've no idea how to collect a string of text via keyboard.

[Gunroar:Cannon()]

This has me thinking now - I've no idea how to collect a string of text via keyboard.

You could use love.keypressed(key,scancode,isrepeat) then collect the key which is the string character the user typed, or you could use love.textinput https://love2d.org/wiki/love.textinput

[togFox]

Oh - I see some examples in that link. So many lines of code to emulate a text box.

Some days I really love love 2d and then some days ... Blah.

It's not enough to stop me though!

[pgimeno]

There's always love.window.showMessageBox though it's not suited for all uses.

[rusbelito]

I guess it's better to implement your own text box, because this library kinda bad
Here, simple example of how you can make your own textbox:

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local string = "Hello, World!"
local font = love.graphics.getFont()
local strw = font:getWidth(string)
local strh = font:getHeight(string)

function love.draw()
  local mx, my = love.mouse.getPosition()
  love.graphics.setColor(1, 1, 1, 0.2)
  love.graphics.rectangle("fill", mx, my, strw * 2, strh * 2)
  love.graphics.setColor(1, 1, 1, 1)
  love.graphics.print(string, mx + strw / 2, my + strh / 2)
end

Thank you very much, what I was trying was with an empty text box, capture the player's text and then show it in the same ucadro or in another thanks to a button and I think that with the example you showed me and with the text, imput that I let myself down "Gunroar: Cannon ()" I think I am dead to achieve it: 3, on the other hand I ask if love has ways to achieve the other functions that that suit library had such as putting a large text only in a certain box and putting a bar displacement

[rusbelito]

This has me thinking now - I've no idea how to collect a string of text via keyboard.

You could use love.keypressed(key,scancode,isrepeat) then collect the key which is the string character the user typed, or you could use love.textinput https://love2d.org/wiki/love.textinput

Thank you very much, I was able to combine the "love.textinput" that you told me with the code fragment that "GVovkiv" had given me above but I have a problem with the "love.text input" I capture and print very well but in the case of That the player makes a mistake when putting a "letter" key cannot erase or correct it, how can I correct this? or how do I correct an already written string

[darkfrei]

How about this one?
viewtopic.php?t=3056