Somewhat simple question, but I'm working on a multiplayer game, and I want to make it so when someone is writing a message in the chatbox your character doesn't continue moving. How can I test to see if the textline has focus (as in, the blinking cursor is there)?

I don't know these by heart (and I can't look them up right now), but there are members of the main "Gui" object that return a pointer to the gui object which has focus (for mouse focus it's Gui.ms).

There might also be a function/member of the gui element (textline) itself that returns if it has keyboard focus.

There might even be a function or something that tells if ANY gui control is active (you wouldn't want to process user input for the game if the user is modifying the gui).

you can use Gui.kb, it is set to the gui object with keyobard focus

for example:

if(Gui.kb==&textline)

(02-03-2010 03:57 PM)Esenthel Wrote:  you can use Gui.kb, it is set to the gui object with keyobard focus

for example:

if(Gui.kb==&textline)

Trying this gives me this error:

error C2446: '==' : no conversion from 'EE::TextLine **' to 'EE::GuiObj *'
Types pointed to are unrelated; conversion requires reinterpret_cast, C-style cast or function-style cast
error C2040: '==' : 'EE::GuiObj *' differs in levels of indirection from 'EE::TextLine **'

EDIT: I realized that the textline was defined as a pointer, so I just had to change it to

if(Gui.kb==textline)

Problem solved.