koobas.hobune.stream
How to save text and display using Touch Screen Keyboard
Hey guys,
A user clicks a button and the iphone keyboard pops up. They are prompted to enter their player's name. I want to be able to save the text they enter in Player Prefs so I can grab their name throughout the game. Seemingly simple but nothing is being saved. After the user taps "return" or "done" on the keyboard there is nothing saved but an empty string in the PlayerPrefs. Here's the code:
private string playerName;
void NamePlayer() {
TouchScreenKeyboard keyboard;
keyboard = TouchScreenKeyboard.Open(playerName, TouchScreenKeyboardType.Default, false, false, false, false, "Enter Name");
if (keyboard.active)
playerName = keyboard.text;
PlayerPrefs.SetString("PlayerName",playerName);
}
Have you tried using 'keyboard.done' ins$$anonymous$$d of 'keyboard.active'? 'active' is for when the keyboard is still visible, 'done' is for when its gone away.
Hey ya I've tried using keyboard.done. That doesn't do anything for me. originally I had it set up like so:
if (keyboard.active)
playerName = keyboard.text;
if (keyboard.done)
PlayerPrefs.SetString("PlayerName", playerName);
is there any ways to implement Touch Screen $$anonymous$$eyboard for Windows PC Platform???
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Read this page : http://answers.unity3d.com/page/newuser.html
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I have never done anything for windows touch. I did a quick search, perhaps something here or one of the links mentioned might help :
This is what I wrote to use the iPhone keyboard :
#pragma strict
public var kBoardString : String = "";
private var tempString : String = "";
private var keyboard : iPhoneKeyboard;
private var iskBoardOpen : boolean = false;
function Update()
{
kBoard0();
}
function kBoard0()
{
// keyboard = iPhoneKeyboard.Open( tempName : String, iPhoneKeyboardType.Default, Auto-Correct, Multi-Line, Secure, Alert, "Text Placeholder" );
if ( !iskBoardOpen )
{
keyboard = iPhoneKeyboard.Open( tempString, iPhoneKeyboardType.Default, false, false, false, false, "Default Keyboard" );
iskBoardOpen = true;
}
if ( keyboard.done )
{
kBoardString = keyboard.text;
tempString = "";
iskBoardOpen = false;
}
else
{
kBoardString = keyboard.text;
}
}
Alucardj, Thank you for the response. I realized what the issue was with my script. I was trying to set a Player Pref during the same frame as when the keyboard was opened. So obviously it wasn't working. I noticed you placed your code to run in the Update function and that's why yours works and $$anonymous$$e doesn't. I either need to do something similar or initate a coroutine and yield while the keyboard is active. Thanks for the tip.
Yes, it was some experimenting to get this right. The kBoard function call was actually in a switch-case, but called every frame while waiting for input, hence the boolean. I was having trouble reading tempString, so it is just a null variable for the iPhone$$anonymous$$eyboard command to use. Glad this helped =]
