detect string length ???

PeeCee

Hi.
is there a way to detect string lenght of characters in a string attribute.????

Cheers

MotherHoose

is it a string you entered? or the player enters? and, what you want to do with the results … are important in considering how to help.

(for comparison of yours/players entry)
make an attribute integer type: correctStringCount
make an attribute integer type: playerStringCount

In yourEntry: count the letters,#,punctuation, spaces
that count would be in game.correctStringCount

In playerEntry: whenever they tap the keyboard and that action adds to string include:
a changeAttribute: game.playerStringCount To: playerStringCount+1
(when they enter [delete X] changeAttribute: game.playerStringCount To: game.playerStringCount-1)

Rule: when game.playerStringCount = game.correctStringCount
--do this or that
Otherwise:
--do something else

MH

Ebreeze

Most of us here are non programmers mate

MotherHoose

@Ebreeze … but, most of them do want to be programmers!

Ebreeze

Programming is hard...that's why GS is awesome...but yeah I wish I could program in at least java or csharp..

MotherHoose

programming is not hard … after all it is a language … and, you can learn any language!

what daunts us: it is all so foreign looking …

while the word/vocabulary can be learned without difficulty … (focus on this, first!)
the grammatical structure/punctuation upsets all our previous learning of how things should be said/written!
and ultimately, stating things so a linear and logical (but, unreasonable) computer can/does … read/write/manipulate our instructions.

GS is a great place to start learning the language!

MH

JohnPapiomitis

MH summed it up nicely.

Hard no, taking time and effort, yes.

You just have to learn what words represent what, and what punctuation follows them.

PeeCee

Thanks to all who commented on here .lol JP(John). I guess i want to be able to restrict a DISPLAY TEXT to only ever
contain 2 characters. is there such as thing ???.
e.g. string attrib/var is string1="AB"
display test(string1)

so now if a user hit other letters then i dont want it to add any more.

Appreciate your help guys.

MotherHoose

as displayText uses very,very little of the device's resources:

2 text gameAttributes … text1 and text2
2 actors … one for 10ths and one for ones
-have the width just large enough to show 1 digit in the font and fontSize you want … (actually fontSize should work for most widths)
-have the height = to your fontSize - 5 or 6

10thsText actor
Rule: when
game.Text1 is (and, leave that blank)
-Keyboard Input behavior

Display Text behavior
Text: text1
Align: left … and √ Wrap inside Actor

same for 1sText actor (but text2 display)

MH

PeeCee

thankyou MH. Appreciate your nice touch and feedback on this.
your logic sounds great. will attempt.