Is there a way to do a text field or text input (or something similar) in Harlowe 2.1.0?

Question

I'm trying to make my story aesthetically appealing and the prompt I'm using just isn't nice looking.
I'm making this game for a class assignment and there are a few of us trying to figure this out, so help is greatly appreciated

 

this is my current code:

(set: $name to (prompt: "Enter your name:", ""))
 

I'd really like to get it to just be a text box on the first screen

 

thanks in advance

Answer 1

Harlowe's developer has deliberately designed the story format so that it restricts access to it's engine's internal workings, and they have decided not to implement a JavaScript API for the story format.

Both of these decisions make it difficult to extend the story format's core functionality, like implementing a Text Field (HTML input element) that persists it's value to a story variable, without resorting to using JavaScript to hack into the story format's engine to gain access to it's internals.

This question has been asked a number of times before and I encourage you (and the others) to visit Harlowe project's Issues page to add your votes (and comments) to the existing embedding text boxes as an alternative to (prompt:) issue. Hopefully this may result in more input related macros being added to the story format.

note: there is a hypothetical thought exercise in the A way to have a text box on the page rather than an input box? question which contains more information about this topic.