yo, i whipped this up in response to someone needing help in the forums, so if ya missed it there, here it is again
this uses the windows buffer for getting keypresses, advantage is that no matter the speed of a user system or their typing speed, it will get exactly what they enter, also allows you to limit the amount of input (in the example it is set to 20)
enjoy!
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`make sure text$ is global or the function will fail!!
global text$ as string
main:
text$=""
clear entry buffer
intext$=""
while intext$=""
cls
center text 320,50,"enter your string"
center text 320,100,text$
` 20= max number of chars for string - change to whatever
intext$=_CheckInput(20)
sync
endwhile
cls
print "Restarting Loop"
print "Your Last Input > ";intext$
sync
wait 2000
goto main
function _CheckInput(MaxTextSize)
GotText$=""
text$=text$+entry$()
clear entry buffer
`check for backspace
if asc(right$(text$,1))=8
if len(text$)>0 then text$=left$(text$,len(text$)-2)
endif
`check for return
if asc(right$(text$,1))=13
text$=left$(text$,len(text$)-1)
if text$<>"" then GotText$=text$
endif
`check size of input
if len(text$)>MaxTextSize then text$=left$(text$,MaxTextSize)
endfunction GotText$