Name Type Text Generator

[N64Mario]

Is it possible to make a 'player name' through selecting each letter on the screen instead of via "keyboard ala notepad" method?

I want something kind of like this.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yQ-6jrEIY0M
I am thinking about making use of secret, or optional characters this way, depending what the user name is.

[DavidN]

Yes, I did one of these here - http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=qpCXGdKJFn8 - is that what you're looking for?

Though explaining how to do it in a simple way isn't the easiest of tasks... I think that there, I used a single String object with the letters, and another String object that changed its contents to a number of spaces + [how far over the cursor should be]. Then, when the button was pressed, it would add the currently selected letter to a String object.

More simply, you could do this with a cursor that's moved around with the arrow keys and a lot of events that add letters to a String called "Name", like:

Player presses Fire 1
+ Cursor is overlapping "D Button"
-> Set alterable string of Name to string$("Name") + "D"

[LB]

Just parse out the cusses with a parsing method, I'll see if I can make a cuss filtering method to post in the File Archive as an example. [won't use real cusses, though]

Edit: posted an example here: http://theclickteam.com/epicenter/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=122997&#Post122 997 however it doesn't want to work for me.

[N64Mario]

Yes, I did one of these here - http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=qpCXGdKJFn8 - is that what you're looking for?

Though explaining how to do it in a simple way isn't the easiest of tasks... I think that there, I used a single String object with the letters, and another String object that changed its contents to a number of spaces + [how far over the cursor should be]. Then, when the button was pressed, it would add the currently selected letter to a String object.

More simply, you could do this with a cursor that's moved around with the arrow keys and a lot of events that add letters to a String called "Name", like:

Player presses Fire 1
+ Cursor is overlapping "D Button"
-> Set alterable string of Name to string$("Name") + "D"

Yes. Something like that.
But while player puts in "Mario" as a name you get Mario. If the player puts "Simon" you get Simon Belmont. Player puts in "MegaMan" they get Mega Man. Etc.
All other names (examples, Jason, Mary, Andi, John, whatever) would just give you default player character.

I'm not really worried about the curse/cuss filter right now. I just need a standard/regualr name input menu thing.

[LB]

Just do "compare two general values" from the special object as condition, and compare if the string is equel to "Mario" or "Simon".

[N64Mario]

Well..... I know how to compare the values. I just having trouble understanding how to put each letter up to modify the text thing. Like what objects would I need to use to make that work?

Also, I imagine an INI script would be needed to save the names created in order, like in that crystal towers 2 demo video?

[DavidN]

You could use a List object for the saving of the list of names - this has the advantage that you can sort by name automatically (I actually save each player in a different file, then collect the file names of the saves and use that to form the list, but it was a headache to set up).

Basically, you need a set of objects, that, when "clicked" on by whichever method you need, will set the text of the Name string to (the current contents of the Name string) + (the new letter). In MMF2, this is done by using, for example, string$("Name") + "A".