How do I limit text to one line + blinking cursor? (SOLVED)

why you want to keep the left key down when you are typing ????

Lol, thanks for the video! You game looks cool!

What I meant though is what happens when you press "Left" key on the keyboard:

For example: you type "DESTRROY ALL HUMANS" and then you notice you made a mistake in the word "DESTROY" and you press Left key several times to move cursor there and correct it.

you can do whatever you wan with the keys you just need to give the right formula position in X to the blinking cursor ! and you can also play with x,y and scale too ( for a selection

square for example)

if you add an event every tick left key down, then you can change the formula for the blinking cursor and it works every time !

if you did a mistake in your text dont use left but just use backspace, that's what i do and it remove the wrong letter (like in the video)

for example if i type something wrong in my app i just added a function "enter" erase everything typed in text box and then you restart typing

The problem is - you can't detect "Left key is down" when cursor is inside the TextBox. It's not possible in Construct 2!

That's what I was trying to tell you!

I know you can erase with Backspace, but some people prefer pressing Left key or Home key if they want to correct a mistake in the beginning of the line and don't want to re-type everything. And if they press any of these keys, the real cursor will move, but your fake sprite cursor will not.

yeah and also the text box is too limited without options, like: text selected > then >change to > "" this is something working at the perfection with Fusion 2.5 and text boxes, but in construct 2 we have tons of little limitations who make things more complex to achieve !

I suggest you do this without the TextBox. Use Text or SpriteFont object.

It's easy -

"On Any Key Pressed" if it's on of the letters/numbers, add it to the text. If backspace pressed, remove last character from text. On Enter, submit the string. And ignore all other keys.