How do I create a "command-line-interface" for a game?

Question

Hey people,
For a game I need to make a DOS-like command-line-interface where the user has at least 3 options to answer with, does anyone know how to go about this?
Hope someone here can help me out!
Kind regards,
Angela

Answer 1

I'm not sure what part of this you are having difficulty with. Imagine for a moment that instead of asking for your end user to type something into a text-entry field and to monitor what they type (perhaps when the ENTER key is pressed), that instead you provide 3 buttons on your stage. Responding to a button press in this scenario is much the same as responding to typed user input - your movie does something based on user interaction. Going back to the user entered text scenario, a text or field sprite can detect the ENTER key being pressed and examine the string the user has entered, something like:
on keyDown me
  if _key.keyCode = 36 then
    stopEvent
    sText = sprite(me.spriteNum).member.text
    case sText of
      "hack": -- do whatever you need to here
      "research":
      "wait":
      otherwise:
    end case
  else
    pass
  end if
end