Process keyboard input one key at a time

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Hi

I want to be able to get keyboard input from a user but process it one key at a time. I could do this with 26 buttons or a canvas with a keyboard background, but is there a better (easier) way to do it?

Thanks

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Have a look at Taifun’s Textbox extension and it’s handler event, which is one way to achieve what you want, to do it without an extension would require a clock timer and lots of blocks to check the content of the textbox…

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Looks good - thank you (and Taifun).

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Here’s an example using a Clock Timer and no extensions …