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Posted: **Mon Jun 15, 2015 4:13 pm**

I'm in the beginning stages of making a chat box for my TextBased RPG. I thought I'd get some ideas on how to accomplish this task. Right now my thinking is is put the user text in a variable "Player1['input']" then when user hits enter Game parses the sentence and feeds back an answer and empties the variable out. Right now I'm stuck on how to get the SHIFT/Spacebar and Punctuation to work correctly. This is what my function looks like so far. Before I go to far in building the chat function what are some tips from you guys to help me out. I'm pretty new to programming.

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function love.keypressed( key, isrepeat )
   
	if key == 'escape' then love.event.quit() end
        if Settings['state'] == "PLAYING" and key and key:match( '^[%w%s]$' ) then Player1['input'] = Player1['input']..key end
	if Settings['state'] == "PLAYING" and key == "backspace" then Player1['input'] = Player1['input']:sub(1, -2) end

end

Also feel free to give me some tips in general, I'll take them.

Posted: **Mon Jun 15, 2015 4:23 pm**

For something like this, I'd recommend using love.textinput(text). This function avoids anything you wouldn't want such as "backspace" or "escape" being typed in (even though you are excluding them). You'd not even need to worry about uppercase and punctuation since pressing shift + those keys work easily with love.textinput.

Posted: **Mon Jun 15, 2015 4:44 pm**

Worked like a charm I didn't even know this was a love function.

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function love.textinput(t)
   if Settings['state'] == "PLAYING" then Player1['input'] = Player1['input'] .. t end
end

Posted: **Mon Jun 15, 2015 5:06 pm**

This is looking really pretty!

Posted: **Mon Jun 15, 2015 6:43 pm**

DeltaF1 wrote:This is looking really pretty!

Thanks. I wish my code was half as nice as it looks. I have some awesome ideas for the storyline but its all about me deciding to finish a project for once.

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