Irrlicht Engine

is there any way to input text without using the editbox class? whenever i add one, my program crashes, and it seems to only happen on this computer. so i'd like a way around, as it's rather hard to make a chat program without text...

You could capture what key they input, then show that key on a static text area, when they press enter, get the text from the static text...?

Use one of the chat box additions to Irrlicht. Or track down the bug to fix this situation. It's rather unlikely that you have a computer where it does not work, it's definitely in the code somewhere.

i think i'll use zeno's idea. thanks, zeno!
hybrid, i've got hello world to lock up just by adding the guienv->addEditBox(L"Hello world",rect<int>(10,10,260,22),true); beneath the somewhat similar statictext. i've got no idea why, but it does not work. and i'm not good at recompiling, so... i'll just use the eventreceiver.

If that is from the same code as the edit box in your other post, I already fixed the only problem there should be.

Then you just do this


IGUIEditBox* whatever = guienv->addEditBox(L"Hello world",rect<int>(10,10,260,22),true);

and then in your event receiver

if(whateverkeyorbutton)
{
whatever->getText();
}