No input box ????

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Hi All,

New Xojo user but experienced in other languages.

I’ve been looking at various languages to start my 9yo son in understanding programming and Xojo seemed a nice place to start.
But after showing him how a messagebox can be linked to a push button, his next question was "Can I type my name into it ? " at which point I found out that no inputBox is available.
Googling results in this post
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Is this still the case ? no input box ? It’s the second thing I needed to do and the first thing my 9yo asked from the programming language.
If not, why not ? is there a technical reason ? I’m disappointed as a basic style language with GUIs needs these simple things.

thanks
Mike

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You can build your own windows with any control. Asking a user to input something with a input-messagebox is a very old way of doing such request.
Try some examples in the examples folder…

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Hi Mike! It looks like in the post link there’s a response from Paul that has an example code–it’s in the Examples folder–Desktop folder–Windows folder–InputWindow.xojo_binary_project