Console Window Input
Hi, I was wondering if there's a way to limit the amount of characters a user can input WHILE they are typing in the console window?
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Yes, but it requires some effort and the answer will vary depending on the platform(s) you wish to support.
How badly do you want to do it?
How badly do you want to do it?
Google "msdn console functions" and hit "I'm feeling lucky."
You'll want to
to turn off line-buffering, and read input one character at a time with ReadConsoleInput, and just discard unwanted characters.
I've never done this: but if you want to be tricky, you can then useWriteConsoleInput to reload the input buffer with the desired input and use std::cin to read the characters normally.
Hope this helps.
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to turn off line-buffering, and read input one character at a time with ReadConsoleInput, and just discard unwanted characters.
I've never done this: but if you want to be tricky, you can then useWriteConsoleInput to reload the input buffer with the desired input and use std::cin to read the characters normally.
Hope this helps.
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