I'm writing a console program (target MSDOS) in Red language and I need to ask the user to enter a character or a string, then to press Enter
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I can't seem to find how to do it, I've read the docs here (http://www.red-by-example.org/index.html) to no avail.
I tried something like this:
read.red
Red [
]
print "Please make your choice then press Enter"
x: input
print x
It works in the "Red Console" with red read.red
but when I compile with red -r -t MSDOS read.red
I get an error:
Compiling C:\apps\red-read\read.red ...
*** Compilation Error: undefined word input
*** in file: C:\apps\red-read\read.red
*** near: [
input
]
How do I ask for input from a Red console program?
I'm using Red version: --== Red 0.6.3 ==--
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Okay, I did some testing and got it working on my end. You need 2 things.
1) You need the latest build, not 0.63. You can grab the automated build from master from the downloads page.
2) You need a reference in your file to use the console. Here is the updated code which will work on Windows with the latest version.
Red [
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#include %environment/console/CLI/input.red
print "Please make your choice then press Enter"
x: input
print x
This info was buried away in an article on github. Also, you were right about MSDOS.