From: "Ingo Ruhnke" <ruhnke AT owl-online DOT de>
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Subject: Re: Strings in Allegro
Date: 24 Nov 1997 20:47:52 GMT
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Mike McLean <libolt AT primenet DOT com> schrieb im Beitrag
<34736E60 DOT DAA8E2D5 AT primenet DOT com>...
> I'm writing a game in C++ & allegro, and I would like to input text
> strings like "hello", and have it appear on screen, then this code could
> be checked by an if loop and run whatever function is intended to be
> run.  I set up a test using cin.  I read in a char of 10, and output it
> using textprintf.  It printed the text out fine, but it didn't print the
> word becuase it's a text function running in graphics mode.  I got a
> bunch of junk at the top of the screen.  I understand this, but I want
> to know if there is a similar function to cin in allegro.
> 
> Any help/info is greatly appreciated

Look at the example programm from allegro (ex14.c) it demonstrate how to
use the GUI-Routines from Allegro to do that, or programm an input routine
yourself like this:

/**************** begin ****************/
#include <allegro.h>

void getline(char *buf, int x, int y, int color)
{
 char c;
 int i;

 for(i = 0;  (c = readkey() & 0xff) != '\n' && c != '\r'; ++i) {
    buf[i] = c;
    buf[i+1] = '_';
    buf[i+2] = '\0';

    textout(screen, font, buf, x, y, color);
 }
 buf[i] = '\0';
}

int main()
{
 char buf[100];

 allegro_init();
 install_keyboard();
 install_timer();

 set_gfx_mode(GFX_VGA, 320, 200, 0, 0);

 getline(buf, 100, 20, 15);

 allegro_exit();
}
/**************** end ****************/

It works, but it may need some improvements.

Ingo