Input string

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MuffinRemnant

Second Chance:

Is this any help? It's very basic but should give you some ideas (first you'd want to 'add up' all the individual letters to get the total input string, hint: userinput$=userinput$+s$)

Next you'll need to process special characters - like backspace,enter,cursor keys etc etc.

Open in online IDE

Graphics 640,480,16,1

fnt=LoadFont("Arial",24) 


SetFont(fnt)



Cls
Text 0,0,"Enter a big string then hit return"

;start position of our input string
x=0
y=32

While Not KeyDown(28)

	letter=WaitKey()
	
	s$=Chr(letter)
	
	; get the width in pixels of the letter
	moveright=StringWidth (s$)
	
	;display it
	Text x,y,s$
	
	;move print position (X) right by the width ofthe character just printed
	x=x+moveright
	
	;reached edge? if so go to next line and start at left again
	If x>640 Then
		x=0
		y=y+24
	EndIf



Wend
WaitKey()
End