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Author:

Chris Barry 

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http://www.allegro.cc/resource/code/text-input.php

A common request in the Allegro forums is for a way to process player text input. cin doesn't work. The Allegro GUI does, but is simplistic and limiting (*cough* and ugly *cough*). Back when I wrote an article on the standard C++ string class, I wrote a small C++ program that stored player input in a std::string. Since then, I made a simpler C version that uses a char array. The code is very short and simple to use, so modifying it for your purposes (to word wrap, for example, if you want that) is dirt easy. I get asked for it often, so I'm just submitting it for ease of finding.