INPUT without "?"

[Wayne Diamond]

Im using the following code:

PRINT "Enter your name: "
INPUT sName

but when it runs, it looks like this: Enter your name: ?
eg. there's a question-mark denoting keyboard input. How can I use INPUT but not have a question mark there?
Also, is there a way I can have a default text there?
Thanks!


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[Lubos Svoboda]

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¦+-[ ALT-F1 ]-[ SHIFT-F1 ]-- PowerBASIC Help System --------------------------+¦
¦¦ ¦
¦¦ INPUT statement ¦_
¦¦ --------------- ¦_
¦¦ Purpose: Prompts the user for keyboard entry and assigns the input to ¦_
¦¦ one or more variables. ¦_
¦¦ ¦_
¦¦ Syntax: INPUT [;] [prompt string {;|,}] variable list ¦_
¦¦ ¦_
¦¦ prompt string is an optional string constant. variable list is a comma- ¦_
¦¦ delimited sequence of one or more string or numeric variables. INPUT ¦_
¦¦ displays prompt string on the screen, waits for the user to enter data ¦_
¦¦ from the keyboard, and assigns the data to the variable(s) in variable ¦_
¦¦ list. If you include a semicolon after prompt string, PowerBASIC outputs ¦_
¦¦ a question mark after the string. Use a comma instead to suppress the ¦_
¦¦ question mark. If a semicolon appears immediately after the INPUT keyword,¦_
¦¦ the cursor will remain on the same line when you press Return to terminate¦
¦¦ the response. Otherwise, a carriage-return/linefeed pair is sent to the ¦¦
+¦ display and the cursor moves to the beginning of the next line. ¦+
+¦ ¦+
¦¦ See also: INPUT # ¦¦
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Alt-F1-Last help NUM

Text above is on-line help of PB !

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[Sebastian Groeneveld]

I can imagine that I may start bothering some forum readers, but I take every opportunity to mention my home-made PB units...

In this case it's about LineEdit (compiled for PB3.5, let me know if you have PB3.2, no source included)... It doesn't print a question mark and you can specify a default text and even callback routines. It automatically gives up time slices under Windows while waiting for input, so the CPU will not be used up for 100% as it does in the PB editor Everything is explained in the text document and the PBH file which you can download separately.

Btw, I noticed I have another (newer) version on my computer with a simple version of LineEdit (eliminating many parameters) but I don't know whether this has been well-tested, and anyway, the help files still have to be rewritten...

The page URL is: http://dracuul.tripod.com/pbdos/index.html

Forgive me, I still haven't spent much time in the HTML stuff, but this nicely fits the topic started by Otto Wipfel about simplicity and effectiveness

Kind regards,

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Sebastian Groeneveld
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[Wayne Diamond]

Thanks This was what I was after:
INPUT "Enter your name:", sName


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