I used Allegro pthreads and Winsock to create a little multi-player tank game. In this game I want the players to be able to chat with each other, and this means that they must be able to type things in a little box (like a console) and press the enter key to send it. I was setting it up so it would wait for a key press. If it is backspace it will remove a character from the buffer, if it is enter it will send the buffer to a function that will assemble and send the message to the server, and if it is anything else it will add it to the buffer. This doesnt work though, when i try to enter the letter "h" it says on the line "h-d=^^f", its just the letter followed by some symbols. I was just wondering if there is something that I could use to accept text input. Also I was also wondering, should I use charactor arrays to hold strings (char mystring[100];), or string(string mystring)? I have seen this done both ways. [Edited by - TheBunny on October 28, 2004 6:03:54 PM]

vHaB

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October 27, 2004 02:51 PM

I'm not familar with Allegro specifically, but that looks like you're not clearing the string when you initialize it.

Like there's just random garbage in there.

darkbeer

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October 27, 2004 03:38 PM

Sounds like the buffer isn't null terminated. Add a 0 (not a '0') to the position after the new character. That should fix it.

TheBunny

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October 27, 2004 06:40 PM

I always clear the string after i initialize it.

Ill try to add the 0, that might work.

TheBunny

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October 27, 2004 07:21 PM

That worked great, thanks.

23yrold3yrold

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October 28, 2004 05:25 PM

Wow; how'd I miss this thread?

I know the question's answered, but this could be helpful.

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TheBunny

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October 28, 2004 05:55 PM

I knew alot of people would want to do that, just couldn't find a tutorial.

I actually did almost EXACTLY what they did in the tutorial, but I also made sure that the keypress was not an arrow key for movement.

The game is done now. You can download it at : http://www.rotbgame.com/downloads/tanks_0.9.1_.exe

I want to see if i can get a few people to test this. If you want to join in the test post here and I will send you the IP address of the server.

TheBunny

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October 28, 2004 07:03 PM

I have done a bit of testing with some other people.

Dont bother downloading yet, I just found some bugs and im going to get a patch ready.

If you want you can still download and check it out (i have the server in the installer too).