Using inkey

[boriel]

Have a look at INPUT.BAS code (a library to simulate INPUT)

This could be of help. for other parts of my program
But I dont think its what I'm looking for.

I want to type in a line of text while other things are happening.

Then you might want to store the value of INKEY$. INKEY does not lock your program execution:

Code:

myLine = "" row = 0 LOOP1: DO_THING 1 K$ = INKEY$ IF K$ = CHR$(13) THEN ' Enter LET row = row + 1 myLine = "" END IF PRINT AT row, 0; MyLine$;: REM add ; "_"; to have a cursor GOTO LOOP1