GameMaker InputBox

A simple single-line box for string entries

You should rather use https://github.com/mh-cz/gmtf
it's faster and has more stuff in it

Fixed: keyboard_string not being cleared before focus

Supported:

• mouse selection
• double click to select a whole word
• overwriting selected text
• backspace/delete
• ctrl + a to select everything
• ctrl + c/x/v copy, cut, paste
• ctrl + backspace to delete a whole word
• ctrl + left/right arrows to skip a whole word
• switching between connected boxes with up/down arrows
• character limit
• width limit

Functions

• focus() - force focus
• copy_look(from) - steal the look of another inputbox
• draw(x, y, gui=true) - position x, position y, if gui is true GUI mouse position will be used
• get_text(with_case=false) - get the string inside. if with_case is true it will return text affected by lcase/ucase
• set_text(text) - overwrite the text inside

Variables

• ib_next (inputbox id) - focus this one when pressed down
• ib_prev (inputbox id) - focus this one when pressed up
• highlight_color (color) - mouse selection color
• highlight_alpha (real) - mouse selection alpha
• line_color (color) - color of the line below the box
• line_alpha (real) - alpha of the line below the box
• bkg_color (color) - background color (unfocused)
• bkg_alpha (real) - background alpha (unfocused)
• bkg_color_focused (color) - background color (focused)
• bkg_alpha_focused (real) - background alpha (focused)
• font (font) - font
• width (real) - width of the input area
• height (real) - height of the input area
• lcase (bool) - force drawing in lowercase
• ucase (bool) - force drawing in uppercase (will overwrite lcase if both are true)
• char_limit (real) - limit the number of characters
• width_limit (bool) - do not allow the text to go over the right border

Example

/// CREATE EVENT
ib1 = new inputbox("Hi there");
ib2 = new inputbox("Hi there two");
ib3 = new inputbox("Hi there three");

// set some fonts
ib2.font = Font1;
ib3.font = Font2;

// set some cosmetic variables
ib2.lcase = true;
ib3.ucase = true;

// set some connections to be able to switch between boxes using arrows
ib1.ib_prev = ib3;
ib1.ib_next = ib2;
ib2.ib_prev = ib1;
ib2.ib_next = ib3;
ib3.ib_prev = ib2;
ib3.ib_next = ib1;

// force focus the first one
ib1.focus();

/// DRAW GUI
ib1.draw(50, 50);
ib2.draw(50, 50+25);
ib3.draw(50, 50+50);

or

/// DRAW
ib1.draw(50, 50, false); // set variable "gui" to false to use regular mouse instead of gui mouse 
ib2.draw(50, 50+25, false);
ib3.draw(50, 50+50, false);