Getting input from the player

Comments

• AntonMuerte

  June 2014

  Try...

  <<textbox "$playerName" "" "Passage_to_link_to">>[code]

  There's a slight difference if you're using SugarCube though. If you look on my posts you'll see my question about it, but using phone at the moment so can't answer fully.
• TheMadExile

  June 2014

  @AntonMuerte:  <<textbox>> is the SugarCube text input macro.  The vanilla headers use <<textinput>>.
  
  
  @migueldeluis:  I'm assuming that you're using one of the vanilla headers (e.g. Jonah, Sugarcane) for the story format.  As far as I can tell from looking at its wiki page and the code, you must:
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  Either specify the built-in button argument for one of the <<textinput>> macros on the page or supply a separate <<button>> macro.
  Use one of those buttons to navigate to the next passage.  Navigating via any other means will not properly set the $variables.  (This seems like a bizarre restriction to me, but whatever.)
  
  For example:
  
  Specify the built-in button argument for the <<textinput>> macro (if you have more than one, then the last one is a good candidate):

  
<<textinput $playerName [[Next|passage]]>>


  Or use the separate <<button>> macro:

  
<<textinput $playerName>><<button [[Next|passage]]>>

• AntonMuerte

  June 2014

  Thanks for correcting me. I was on my phone and I remember asking about it a while back but forgot it was about SugarCube.