gui Input fields with dxDraw

[Pi.R]

Hello, 

I want to use dX functions for my User Interface. I'm starting with a login panel and I was wondering how I could emulate the edit field of the GUI functions. 

Should I still use a edit field in a dxRectangle? How can I do it?

Cheers! 

[Dealman]

You'll have to use onClientClick to detect if a user has clicked within the text-field. If true, you'll want to prevent MTA from registering input if necessary, this can be done via toggleAllControls for example.

Once the text-field has "focus", you can use the event onClientCharacter to allow them to type text into that text-field. Store the letters in a table and also use this table to display the text entered on-screen. If it's a masked text-field for passwords, you can use gsub on the string to replace all characters with * for example(not on the table itself, obviously).

Then there are some other workarounds you need to do such as deleting characters via backspace/delete, moving the caret index left and right via arrow keys or whatnot. Depends on how much functionality you want to add.

[Pi.R]

Seems complicated....

Can't I use a GUI input, set it's background Alpha to 0 and only display the text inside? 

[Dealman]

You can, but if I recall correctly only the background is hidden. The text will still be visible and you can't change colour of it. Play around with it.