Text box in SFML ?

[Demian]

Is it possible to code an text box with SFML or do I have to use the headers from the OS as windows.h ?

[Walker]

SFML doesn't include anything like that. Windows message box would work, but I would recommend using Qt for cross-platform goodness

There is also some sort of GUI thing in the wiki I believe, but I haven't looked into it.

EDIT: Come to think of it, you could just make a new window. Make your own buttons etc. Probably could even encase this in a class and have it return whatever based on which button was pressed, sort of like windows MessageBox.  :wink:

[gsaurus]

You can handle the TextEntered event. For a fully functional hand made textbox it would require a bit more work to do the caret, text selection, focus handling, etc.

But depends on what you want to do with it

[Demian]

SFML doesn't include anything like that. Windows message box would work, but I would recommend using Qt for cross-platform goodness

There is also some sort of GUI thing in the wiki I believe, but I haven't looked into it.

EDIT: Come to think of it, you could just make a new window. Make your own buttons etc. Probably could even encase this in a class and have it return whatever based on which button was pressed, sort of like windows MessageBox.  :wink:

I just want to add a textbox in order to take Input from the keyboard.
It should to be something like EDITTEXT from windows.h

[Walker]

Sorry, I completely misread. I thought you were after a message box type thing.

TextEntered is the closest thing to a text box that SFML has. Like gsaurus said, it depends what you need it to do.

I just looked in the wiki, cpGUI has a text box object, but like I said I haven't really checked it out yet.