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Started by Sewbacca, 25 March 2016 - 01:06 PM

Sewbacca #1

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Posted 25 March 2016 - 02:06 PM

Is there a way to give an standard text?
So it returns:


Filename: standardFile_

The _ stands for the cursor.

Anavrins #2

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Posted 25 March 2016 - 03:59 PM

Sewbacca, on 25 March 2016 - 02:06 PM said:
Is there a way to give an standard text?
So it returns:
Filename: standardFile_
The _ stands for the cursor.

Unfortunately no, but a very hacky way to achieve this would be to queue a key event for each character right before the read().

Edited on 25 March 2016 - 03:00 PM

Sewbacca #3

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Posted 25 March 2016 - 04:03 PM

thanks

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Posted 25 March 2016 - 04:50 PM

Example code:


local s = "standardFile"
for letter in s:gmatch(".") do os.queueEvent("char", letter) end
read() #-- Will have "standardFile" already written.

Edited on 25 March 2016 - 03:50 PM

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Posted 25 March 2016 - 08:45 PM

Thx