Simple Cursor

[baconlovar]

Does anyone know how to make a simple cursor for the draw_text function?

It doesn't need to do anything fancy like backspace or whatever, all it needs to do it exist and follow the text that the player is typing, just like the one you will write in the replies to this post

Example: http://www.ami-bookshop.com/ecards/images/copy-paste_04.gif

 

[CoderJoe]

I remember in one of the gm tutorials there was one with text input (maybe the saving and loading tutorial?) and they made a cursor by drawing a line at the end of the text. You can do this with something like draw_line and set its position to the amount of characters times the width of the characters. Hope that helps a bit.

 

[Aura]

You can easily add a string to another string. Keep a variable for the actual text and in the draw_text() call, add the cursor to it. If you want the cursor to blink, then use a combination of string_copy() and an alarm.

Create:

blink = 1; // 1 for visible, 0 for invisible
alarm[0] = room_speed/2;

Alarm 0:

blink ^= 1; // set "blink" to 0 if it is 1 and vice versa
alarm[0] = room_speed/2;

Draw:

draw_text(x, y, keyboard_string + string_copy("|", 1, blink));

Or if you want to persistently show it, simply add the symbol to the text.

draw_text(x, y, keyboard_string + "|");

 

[baconlovar]

Ah dude, you're a genius copying the string is a great idea. Thanks for the responses! It helped a lot