# Additional Window in 2D Game

**URL:** <https://discourse.libcinder.org/t/additional-window-in-2d-game/1648>\
**Category:** Using Cinder\
**Created:** [May 2, 2020, 1:17pm UTC](https://discourse.libcinder.org/t/additional-window-in-2d-game/1648 "2020-05-02T13:17:15Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![montymosby](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/discourse.libcinder.org/montymosby/32/826_2.png) [@montymosby](https://discourse.libcinder.org/u/montymosby)\
**Post date:** [May 2, 2020, 1:17pm UTC](https://discourse.libcinder.org/t/additional-window-in-2d-game/1648/1 "2020-05-02T13:17:15Z")

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So I have a 2D character-based game. I want the character to be able to interact with the scene i.e. A Key Event ‘H’ when pressed makes a text box appears describing the scene.

Can anyone tell me how to incorporate the text box? I don’t want it to cover the entire screen.

Also, I have several screens so they change.

Any help is appreciated.

This is how it looks. (@paul.houx)

 ![image](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/uploads/libcinder/original/1X/6ef8b93a2deed62e19a345e86181b05c94feff4e.jpeg)

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**Author:** ![lab101](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/discourse.libcinder.org/lab101/32/583_2.png) [@lab101](https://discourse.libcinder.org/u/lab101)\
**Post date:** [May 6, 2020, 3:38pm UTC](https://discourse.libcinder.org/t/additional-window-in-2d-game/1648/2 "2020-05-06T15:38:27Z")

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hey Monty,

There isn’t really a concept of windows within cinder unless you referrer to a actual window in the OS?  
Anyway for text you can checkout the samples in the cinder folder.  
They will show you different options on how to display text…

greets  
Kris