In this tutorial I'll show you how to use textboxes to prompt the player for text and assign this text to variables for later use.
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Note ▶ One can ignore obj_text as it was going to be used to control the alpha as well as some formatting of the text, but all of that is controlled by the textboxes instead so is not needed. It has therefore been removed from the downloadable file below.
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A text IO example with memory of previous inputs was requested and has been put together. You can get it here ▶ http://tinyurl.com/gnorsqt
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