A copy of the Nintendo Switch keyboard for LovePotion.
This is likely no longer of use as the native keyboard can be used in newer versions of LovePotion. However, this keyboard can still be used in applet mode.
Download the latest NXboard.zip and extract the contents to your game directory. If you wish to change the location of the resources folder, make sure you change the 'path variable' in NXboard.lua
Set up your main.lua as seen in template.lua so that appropriate events are passed to NXboard.
To invoke the keyboard use [name]:init(var, buffer, theme, type, omit_keys, char_limit, message) where the arguments are as follows:
- var: A string containing the name of the variable to return/copy the buffer to when the keyboard is closed
- buffer: A string (can be a variable) containing the contents of the keyboard buffer when invoked
- theme: A string (either "dark" or "light") which sets the theme of the keyboard
- type: A string (either "keyboard" or "numpad") which sets which layout is shown
- omit_keys: A table containing single characters that will not be allowed to be typed (valid examples are {} [allow all] or {'a','b','c'} [allow everything but a, b or c] or {"only_numbers"} [only numbers will be allowed])
- char_limit: A number specifying the maximum length of the keyboard buffer allowed
- message: A string to display when the buffer is empty
You will most likely call this in touch/gamepad events as seen in the examples
For example, if you wanted to store the user's input in the variable p1_number, and open a dark numpad with a limit of 10 digits, allowing only numbers to be entered you would type something similar to:
[name]:init("p1_number",p1_number,"dark","numpad",{"only_numbers"},10,"Enter a 10 digit number...")