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Name

RequestString [STRING] [TEXT] [TITLE] [NOGADS] [WIDTH] [SAFE] [PERSIST]
              [ENCRYPT] [COMPARE] [PUBSCREEN]

Synopsis

STRING, TEXT/K, TITLE/K, NOGADS/S, WIDTH/N, SAFE/S, PERSIST/S,
ENCRYPT/S, COMPARE/K, PUBSCREEN/K

Location

C:

Function

Shows a requester with a string gadget for user input.

Inputs

STRING     -- Initial content of string gadget.
TEXT       -- Label string.
TITLE      -- Title string of requester. This also adds dragbar, closegadget
              and a depthgadget.
NOGADS     -- Suppress gadgets when TITLE argument is given.
WIDTH      -- Minimal width as number of characters.
SAFE       -- Hide user input with "*".
PERSIST    -- Intuition is blocked until requester is quitted.
ENCRYPT    -- Encrypt result before returning. Requires that one of these
              environment variables is set: USER, USERNAME or LOGIN.
COMPARE    -- If the input string is not equal to the argument
              of COMPARE return WARN.
PUBSCREEN  -- Open requester on given pubscreen.

Bugs

PERSIST doesn't allways work.
WIDTH not implemented.

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