P-156: Update 17: Text Input Part 2
by PhoenixGames on Apr.05, 2015, under Software and Games, Software Engines
Text input is now working. I couldn’t find an “easy” way of getting text input working, so I had to add a toggle to the game code, to detect whether the player is allowed to enter text. When the player is in a text input mode, the keyboard input from the letter and number keys is redirected to a callback function, and I use that to build up a string. I then listen for the return key, and when pressed, I perform processing on the string.
Since OpenGL is a graphics rendering library, and not a Games Engine, it has no native text input or output function, so this seems to be the best way of doing this for the moment.
