Create a new character?

[mnrvovrfc]

Some more some better:

This post wins the contest for me. That word game should have something like that which is clear to me, otherwise it isn't for me. (crying)

Umm... but remember to check for "escape" key press or some way to exit the program. Shouldn't be playing games during work hours LOL.

[bplus]

Umm... but remember to check for "escape" key press or some way to exit the program. Shouldn't be playing games during work hours LOL.

Ah yes! good point and perhaps the whole thing a self contained function that returns the string (on enter chr$(13)) or "" empty string on escape chr$(27). Just feed it, the function, a row number and some text to edit. I think that is what Phil is after, I will update.

[bplus]

Umm... but remember to check for "escape" key press or some way to exit the program. Shouldn't be playing games during work hours LOL.

Ah yes! good point and perhaps the whole thing a self contained function that returns the string (on enter chr$(13)) or "" empty string on escape chr$(27). Just feed it, the function, a row number and some text to edit. I think that is what Phil is after, I will update.

The only advantage to this over Input? You can start with some default text and alter colors?

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Option _Explicit
_Title "MyCurs Test use left and right arrow keys to move cursor" 'b+ 2023-01-24
Screen _NewImage(800, 600, 32)
Dim text$, output$
_PrintMode _KeepBackground
text$ = "Hello World"

Color &HFF000000, &HFFFFFFFF
Cls
Print text$
_PrintString (20, 5), text$ ' this should blur text because of print mode
output$ = EditLine$(20, text$)
Cls
Print "Your edit was '"; output$; "'"
_PrintString (20, 5), output$ ' this should blur text

Function EditLine$ (row, copytext$) ' assuming a graphics screen for line drawing and measuring character width per line
    Dim As Long pm, maxLen, cursCol, kh
    Dim defaultColor~&, backGroundColor~&, text$
    pm = _PrintMode
    defaultColor~& = _DefaultColor: backGroundColor~& = _BackgroundColor
    Color backGroundColor~&, defaultColor~&
    _PrintMode _FillBackground ' so we can use spaces to "erase" line
    text$ = copytext$ ' save original input
    maxLen = _Width / 8
    cursCol = 1
    Do
        Locate row, 1: Print Space$(maxLen) 'clear line better that clearing whole screen
        Locate row, 1: Print text$; ' current status
        myCurs row, cursCol '   show curs location
        kh = _KeyHit '  poll keys

        ' handle key press
        If kh = 19200 And cursCol > 1 Then
            cursCol = cursCol - 1
        ElseIf kh = 19712 And cursCol < maxLen Then
            If cursCol + 1 <= Len(text$) + 1 Then cursCol = cursCol + 1
        ElseIf (kh >= 32 And kh <= 127) And Len(text$) < maxLen Then
            If cursCol <= Len(text$) + 1 Then 'lets not be printing in no mans land!
                text$ = Mid$(text$, 1, cursCol - 1) + Chr$(kh&) + Mid$(text$, cursCol)
                cursCol = cursCol + 1
            End If
        ElseIf kh& = 8 Then ' back space
            If cursCol > 1 Then
                text$ = Mid$(text$, 1, cursCol - 2) + Mid$(text$, cursCol)
                cursCol = cursCol - 1
            End If
        ElseIf kh& = 21248 Then ' delete
            text$ = Mid$(text$, 1, cursCol - 2) + Mid$(text$, cursCol)
        ElseIf kh& = 13 Then
            EditLine$ = text$: Exit Do
        ElseIf kh& = 27 Then
            EditLine$ = "": Exit Do
        End If
        _Display
        _Limit 60
    Loop
    Select Case pm 'return printmode before
        Case 1: _PrintMode _KeepBackground
        Case 2: _PrintMode _OnlyBackground
        Case 3: _PrintMode _FillBackground
    End Select
    Color defaultColor~&, backGroundColor~&
End Function

Sub myCurs (row, col) ' use row col like for Locate
    'Locate row, col
    Dim c~&
    Static As Long lc, toggle
    lc = lc + 1
    If lc > 1000000 Then lc = 0
    If lc Mod 20 = 0 Then toggle = 1 - toggle
    If toggle Then c~& = _RGB32(255, 255, 255) Else c~& = _RGB32(0, 0, 0)
    Line ((col - 1) * 8, (row - 1) * 16)-Step(0, 15), c~&
End Sub

EDIT: I added some code to see the restoring of _PrintMode (and color) after the call to LineEdit$.
So I am printing over a printed section to see both texts are overlapping.