User input

[May-Medhat]

Kindly, I am new to allegro I searched a lot but I could not figure how to take input from user as ID or name in allegro 5 I used event keyboard char it accept only one value to select an option for example.

[beoran]

To implement text input, you will need to capture several keystrokes and concatenate their text values together as a string. You can also handle the backspace , delete and arrow keys to allow more comfortable editing.

The example https://github.com/liballeg/allegro5/blob/master/examples/nihgui.cpp#L781 shows how this can be done in the small GUI library that we use for the examples.