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Migs YaBB Newbies Offline Posts: 6 Bolivia	Processing sketches for user prompted text Sep 19th, 2008, 6:47pm   Friends: Can someone point me to sketches for Processing that do user prompts for textual input and output? Thanks in advance, -Migs

PhiLho  YaBB Moderator Offline Posts: 4190 Near Paris (France)	Re:   Processing sketches for user prompted t Reply #1 - Sep 19th, 2008, 8:36pm   For quick, reliable results, you might want to take a look at the Graphic Interface section of the library page. Otherwise, for user input, you will process the key events (eg. keyTyped() callback), managing arrows, backspace and delete keys, etc., and providing visual feedback on the sketch.

seltar Senior Member Offline Posts: 475	Re:   Processing sketches for user prompted t Reply #2 - Sep 22nd, 2008, 12:02pm   import javax.swing.JOptionPane; String s = (String)JOptionPane.showInputDialog(null,    "Input Data:",    "Datainputdialog",    JOptionPane.PLAIN_MESSAGE); -seltar
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Migs YaBB Newbies Offline Posts: 6 Bolivia	Re:   Processing sketches for user prompted t Reply #3 - Sep 22nd, 2008, 9:04pm   Hi Seltar and PhiLho Thanks for the code and link.  I'll have to study them and try a few examples. Most grateful, Migs