Ask user for a string

DensetsuNoKaboom · **Ask user for a string -** 06-19-2010, 05:55 PM

Can you make multiple possible answers for the same "ask user for a string" and have each possible answer do a different thing?

zonedabone · 06-19-2010, 06:42 PM

The short answer is no. The long answer gets very long, and isn't fully complete. I've tried making drop down menus, but they freeze up whenever the Alice window is running. If you want the crazy workaround answer, then it's sort of possible. For the text, have numbers mean different things, and have the person enter a number. The rest is self explainatory.

DensetsuNoKaboom · 06-19-2010, 06:47 PM

Erm...I understood that up to the second "long".

zonedabone · 06-19-2010, 06:51 PM

Baisically, it cannot be done with pure alice, and it hasn't been done well in jython. For an example of the crazy version, try searching around for Type It. It has some similar functionality.

DensetsuNoKaboom · 06-20-2010, 07:58 AM

Erm...I think I just did it in Alice (silly me for answering my own questions). What I did is have a string variable, begin the world by asking the user for a string that becomes the string variable, then make a huge bunch of if/elses saying what to do depending on the variable's value. I think something similar was done in AliceOS's Command Prompt.