Question

I just started making a text-adventure in javascript this weekend.

I realized that the prompt input system can get really annoying, so I wanted to change over to a bar-input system that would collect input and store it in the “action” variable (see source), exactly like the one is this example I managed to find: http://iainlobb.com/dork/

SOURCE: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/96609235/mainfile.txt

(I know this might not be the most efficient way to make a text adventure, so I don’t really want a lesson in the layout)

Answer 1

Steal his 😉

Or if you want to make your own you basically just:

1. An input with width=”100%”; this will be the “bar-input”
2. Attach a keypress event handler to that input, and listen for any enter key-presses that happen
3. When that event fires, have your handler … handle it (move the user in to the next room or whatever)
4. Whenever you write more text out to the user, re-position the input (depending on the HTML/CSS you use, this might happen automatically).