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Beginners > PAlib question - keyboard input

#142126 - Shinji - Thu Oct 04, 2007 8:58 pm

Hi Guys,
I write my first little Game for my Nintendo DS with PAlib.
And here I have a noobish question, excuse please (and sorry for huge post - i add the source code) ^^

I want that the player can type in his Name. To make this possible I used the PAlib-Example of the Keyboard. Source Code:

// Includes
#include <PA9.h> // Include for PA_Lib


char text[200]; // This will be our text...



// Function: main()
int main(int argc, char ** argv)
{
PA_Init(); // Initializes PA_Lib
PA_InitVBL(); // Initializes a standard VBL

PA_InitText(1, 0); // Initialise the text system

PA_InitKeyboard(2); // Load the keyboard on background 2...

PA_KeyboardIn(20, 95); // This scrolls the keyboard from the bottom, until it's at the right position
// PA_KeyboardOut() can be used to scroll the Keyboard out
// PA_ScrollKeyboardXY(x, y) can be used to set the keyboards position


PA_OutputSimpleText(1, 7, 10, "Text : ");

s32 nletter = 0; // Next letter to right. 0 since no letters are there yet
char letter = 0; // New letter to write.

// Infinite loop to keep the program running
while (1)
{
// We'll check first for color changes, with A, B, and X
if (Pad.Newpress.A) PA_SetKeyboardColor(0, 1); // Blue and Red
if (Pad.Newpress.B) PA_SetKeyboardColor(1, 0); // Red and Blue
if (Pad.Newpress.X) PA_SetKeyboardColor(2, 1); // Green and Red
if (Pad.Newpress.Y) PA_SetKeyboardColor(0, 2); // Blue and Green

letter = PA_CheckKeyboard();

if (letter > 31) { // there is a new letter
text[nletter] = letter;
nletter++;
}
else if(letter == PA_TAB){// TAB Pressed...
u8 i;
for (i = 0; i < 4; i++){ // put 4 spaces...
text[nletter] = ' ';
nletter++;
}

}
else if ((letter == PA_BACKSPACE)&&nletter) { // Backspace pressed
nletter--;
text[nletter] = ' '; // Erase the last letter
}
else if (letter == '\n'){ // Enter pressed
text[nletter] = letter;
nletter++;
}

PA_OutputSimpleText(1, 8, 11, text); // Write the text


PA_WaitForVBL();
}

return 0;
} // End of main()



Now the question:
I want the name to be saved. How can I do that? It should be saved the way, that I can give it out, too..

Sorry for noob qstion and bad english :O

Thank + Greetings,
Shinji