Dll For Textbox Support In Gm, TEdit and TMemo implemented Options

[petersvp]

Windows Text Box DLL v1.0
By
Peter games /SOFTWARE 2006
DISCONTINUED!

About
Have you ever tried to make a normal text box, like notepad, with GameMaker? If yes probably u understand how difficult is it!
This DLL adds REAL WINDOWS TEXT BOXES in GameMaker!

You can add normal editbox or multiline text box. You can set font, and color of textboxes, u can make them password boxes (using edit_passwordchar function), u can create, destroy them, set the text in them, get the text from them and so on...

In the future i plan to add other windows common controls, like buttons, checkboxes and even other windows! The DLL for now have one extra function, to show Windows Message Boxes

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This post has been edited by petersvp: May 20 2007, 09:22 PM

[teej]

ok and i'll be looking forward to see
the updates. keep up the good job!

[paul23]

thank you for creating this, I've been looking for such a thing for a pretty long time.

ps: who should I give credits?

[eagleclaw364]

Brilliant. I was looking for something like this.

Maybe you could add commands like Cut, Copy, Paste, Delete text and edit_set_width, so that you can change the box size with the window.

Keep up the good work. ^.^

Cheers
Eagle

[tsa05]

Hey, this is really good! It's flexible--I like that the game runs with these boxes so that there's no special handling. There have been others like this that freeze the game and then return the input; this is better.

Keep it up--new windows would be incredible, and with checkboxes and radio buttons, this would easily become the complete package for user input in GM.

[Chirantha]

I like to say that this is better the GMWW because you can type more text than the width of the box it self..... And also no problems mostly because you wrote this Delphi so its more compatable in GM.

[tangibleLime]

Chirantha, for your information, I fixed that glitch that it stops your cursor when the width is reached. It now scrolls.

This post has been edited by roachofdeath: Jan 26 2006, 07:40 PM

[petersvp]

I currently handle textboxes using HWND and SendMessage function
I Yet study them, so it is not possible to make ALL before i understand the SendMessage Function. I Will NOT make checkboxes cuz they are so easy to be done with GM Itself... but in the future i don't know. I plan to ad Buttons but i dont know how GM To understand that a specified button is being clicked or not...

BUT i can also re-create the DLL to be ID based, not hwnd based, it will be pretty easy but...probably will have limit of components created, to 32767, cuz if more an "Array size too large" error occurs.

I will say if there is any update.

Ps> Do you notice the Windows Message Box function? Just fill correctly the username and password box

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Maybe you could add commands like Cut, Copy, Paste, Delete text and edit_set_width, so that you can change the box size with the window.

--> Well, to delete the text from textbox is so easy, just set the text in it to "". Just get the text from textbox, and copy it to clipboard with the GM Functions. Edit_set_width, u can first get text, secondly destroy the textbox, then create new textbox with other width, and set back text in it.

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I like that the game runs with these boxes so that there's no special handling. There have been others like this that freeze the game and then return the input;

Well, thanks to Mark Overmars that got the window_handle() function, which returns the hwnd of client game window! Bercause i know this hwnd, i can set the game window to be PARENT of the textboxes, so the textboxes are now PART of the game window. Cuz the "Windows Common Controls" are made for applications

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I like to say that this is better the GMWW

Well, i dont believe this. Also, I havent yet tested the GMWW I will test it...

WELL, sorry for that long post

This post has been edited by petersvp: Jan 26 2006, 09:06 PM

[jaenster]

Hmm thanks this was exectlie what i need

[ChIkEn AtE mY dO...]

make a function to update stuff like a multilines height and width...

i was going to make something and needed that function
this is pretty neato =D

[petersvp]

To update anything i yet dont have needed knowledge! But you can get the text first, then destroy the text box and create new with nwe parameters, then set the text in it to old one.
example:
1st:
a=edit_create...

now updating itself:

text=edit_get_text(a);
//here set the font and color parameters
edit_destroy(a);
a=edit_create(....);
edit_set_text(a,text);

I have to work in other functions, even to rewrite the DLL at all...
Important:
When i rewrite the dll i will RENAME functions, like: edit_create, memo_create, edit_set_text, memo_set_text... cuz i will add more controls, like buttons, in my DLL, so every component will have separate functions.

This post has been edited by petersvp: Jan 28 2006, 01:48 AM

[grimdaze]

Very sweet dll.

[DeadMeat]

Yeah, this Example ROCKS!!!!
I'll put your name in credits with BIG LETTERS!

[Chirantha]

BUT i can also re-create the DLL to be ID based, not hwnd based, it will be pretty easy but...probably will have limit of components created, to 32767, cuz if more an "Array size too large" error occurs.

Secret of the GM Core has been Found!!!! . So This is why Mark put a limit of 32000 on the GM array limit it self!! Because its a Delphi Limit!!!!

[ChIkEn AtE mY dO...]

i believe i am the first person to make a use for it...
check N-Pad in the creations forum =)

i also figured out a way to resize the window... the same method u had... but with some extra stuff

10/10 =)

[eagleclaw364]

Damn! I was going to make a program called ePad! Hahhaha.

[paul23]

Still nice, however I found 1 minor problem, when scrolling the game stops "running". This is a small "bug", which you see very often in even commercial programmes.

Also, maybe you should give the possibility to make "horizontal" scrolling possible.

great job, great dll.

[freaky_entertain...]

Nice . But you really have to think of setting the width and height of the edin in the game without that hard wat that gets the text , then destroys the edit , and the creates anotherone with the text . I'll ask a friend of mine that is a delphi programmer to tell you how

[DeadMeat]

I've discovored 2 bugs

1) When you switch fullscreen/window the boxes dissapear. I suppose you can't scale them, so the user will have to disable the switching.
2) When you press in a text box (to type etc...), you can't switch back to the game. I mean, after you've typed something, try to press <ESC>. The keys doesn't work for the game and you can't do anything about it.

Suggestion: Can you make it when you press <TAB> to go to the "Next" text box. Use IDs.

This post has been edited by DeadMeat: Feb 17 2006, 07:29 PM

[tsa05]

Those 1st 2 issues can be taken care of...
1) Check for mode switch, get contents of box, delete box, redraw box, set contents.
2) Global mouse events or escape key event, etc...

I'm wondering about the 3rd-- can you add a way to set which form has focus? That would rock...