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From: Opera Rat on 9 Sep 2006 04:15
Could someone help me with step-by-step instructions on how to do this. I
have search the internet and my huge director books for hours for some kind of
pre-packaged instructions on getting user text input, but no luck. I have my
interface set up and these are the pieces of info I want:

User Name (limited to 30 characters)
Login (between 6 to 15 characters)
Password (between 6 to 15 characters)
Password2 (must match Password)
e-mail address (must contain an @ sign)

I don't know if I'm supposed to use text, field, or flashTextInput component.
And how do I perform the character limiting and checking for a character? I
know it must be editable. How do I then gather this info with a submit button
and save it to an encrypted file with the buddyAPI? And then how do I get
certain elements of this data and use them in this movie or another in the
program?

Thanks in advance.

From: Mike Blaustein on 9 Sep 2006 10:17
There are lots of ways of going about this, but I would do it like this:

Use all #text members. They are, to me, the most straightforward ones
with the most options.

The text sprites don't need any scripts at all. Just make a "submit"
button that does all the checking. Something like this should get you
started:

on mouseUp me
if member("username").text.char.count>30 then
alert "User name must be 30 or less characters"
pass
end if

if member("login").text.char.count>15 then
alert "Login must be 15 or less characters"
pass
end if

if member("login").text.char.count<6 then
alert "Login must be 6 or more characters"
pass
end if

if member("password").text.char.count>15 then
alert "Password must be 15 or less characters"
pass
end if

if member("password").text.char.count<6 then
alert "Password must be 6 or more characters"
pass
end if

if member("password").text<>member("password2").text then
alert "Password fields do not match"
pass
end if

if not(member("email").text contains "@") then
alert "Email field must contain an @ sign"
pass
end if

baWriteIni( "info", "username", member("username").text, the
moviePath&"settings.ini" )
baWriteIni( "info", "login", member("login").text, the
moviePath&"settings.ini" )
baWriteIni( "info", "password", member("password").text, the
moviePath&"settings.ini" )
baWriteIni( "info", "email", member("email").text, the
moviePath&"settings.ini" )

baEncryptFile(the moviePath&"settings.ini","SuperSecretKey")

go "frameThatYouGoToIfEverythingIsGood"
end

That's all. It will throw an error if anything is entered wrong and if
it is all correct it will write it to the settings.ini file and encrypt
it. To read those settings, you need to unencrypt it using the same
SuperSecretKey and use baReadIni to get the setting out. Then you'll
probably want to re-encrypt as soon as you finish reading it.
From: Opera Rat on 9 Sep 2006 17:33
Wow! Thanks Mike. This should be in a knowlegde database. It certainly
wasn't in any of my books.
Why am I write to the settings.ini file. What is that? It sounds like
something that is read automatically by a program. Is this the file where I
would store things like where the user left off in the program?

From: Mike Blaustein on 9 Sep 2006 17:54
You can change the name to whatever you want. I just picked that name
because it sounds official-like. You can save anything you want to it,
using BuddyAPI's baWriteIni function is really easy (as you can see from
my example). And you can read it back in using baReadIni which has
similar syntax (check the BuddyAPI docs for more details).
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