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• Posted by "J. Kenneth Riviere" <kriviere at MINDSPRING.COM> Aug 12, 2000
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I've been working on a problem which I've not been able to resolve.
I hope someone here has some suggestions.  I've written a game using
Win32Lib and I want to be able to prompt the user for their name.
I looked for something like a promptbox() routine similar to the
useful messagebox() function, but have not been able to find one.
So I declared a second window, put a label, text field, and OK button
in it planning to have the OK button's routine store the results
which had been entered into the text field and close the window.
However, I've not been able to get the button to work at all.  I've
included a simple program which demonstrates the problem below.  I've
been able to achieve the functionality I need by adding an onClose
call for the window (see the commented-out line) and then commenting
out the closeWindow call within the function.  However, I'd rather
have users be able to click on the OK button instead of just closing
the window.  Any help would be greatly appreciated.

   -J. Kenneth Riviere (JoKeR)

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include win32lib.ew
without warning

integer  result
sequence userName
userName = {}

constant
Win        = create( Window, "TestWindow", 0, Default, Default, 200, 200,
0 ),
testButton = create( PushButton, "Push Me!", Win, 30, 60, 120, 40, 0 )

constant
    PromptWin = create( Window,"Enter your
name",0,Default,Default,260,120,0),
    PromptLbl = create( LText, "Please enter your name",
                        PromptWin, 10, 15, 120, 20, 0 ),
    PromptFld = create( EditText, "", PromptWin, 10, 45, 120, 20, 0 ),
    OKButton  = create( PushButton, "OK", PromptWin, 180, 40, 30, 30, 0 )

    onClick[ OKButton ] = routine_id("onClick_OKButton")

global procedure onClick_OKButton()
    -- use the data from the text field to demonstrate this code is
executing
    userName = getText( NameFld )
    result = message_box( sprintf("Name = %s", {userName}),
                          "Player's name", 0 )
    closeWindow(PromptWin)
end procedure
--onClose [ PromptWin ] = routine_id("onClick_OKButton")

-- the test button's behavior
global procedure onClick_TestButton()
    if length(userName) > 0 then
        result = message_box( sprintf("Name = %s", {userName}),
                              "Player's name", 0 )
    end if
    openWindow( PromptWin, Normal )
end procedure

-- tell Windows when to do the action
onClick[testButton] = routine_id( "onClick_TestButton" )


WinMain(Win, Normal)