Alright. So I'm wondering if there's a text that has 6 lines, for example, can mmf read each seperately? And edit them separately as well and display the result in another text box?
so the result text box should read, 'smokin' and then 'great!' after a delay. Also, I wonder how to do a delay. Any help in this matter will be most appreciated as always.
[thanks to Eternal Entertainment for telling me I had posted this in the wrong section ]
If it's just a normal String object, can you not just have two paragraphs inside your string, one that says SMOKIN and one that says GREAT! and just switch between the two using the "Set Paragraph" action?
Oh and a delay would be easy, just add to a counter or an alterable value every second or whatever and when the counter reaches the value you want just put,
You could have one string object off-screen that's only for holding your whole conversation (I'm assuming you want to do a dialogue box or something, appologies if you aren't). Then you'd need a counter, and another string object that would be your actual display that the player will see.
Say your off-screen string object has:
Paragraph 1: "Lady: Hello there, where is my house?"
Paragraph 2: "Kid: How am I supposed to know? Who are you?"
Paragraph 3: "Lady: Don't be a dummy, I'm your old MA!"
Paragraph 4: "Kid: That's ridiculous, I'm an orphan! An orphan from space!"
Okay now you would set it so that the display string object's text is always equal to the off-screen string object's (counter value) paragraph. Then you could have it so that every time a player presses a key or something the counter gets incremented by +1 and it'd show the next line of the conversation.
But I'm guessing this isn't exactly what you're looking for.
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Haha not exactly a dialog box, no. But that still definitely helps. Both the delay thing and what Del Duio said are helpful.
See, the thing is, 'smokin' n 'great' were just examples. Those will change all the time. So i just need something that will pick up only alphabets from a string. And as for the 6 lines, I think I should be able to assign each line to a seperate text object or string object and then keep on deleting the first character (after a delay) until it comes to a letter and not a minus sign/dash. And then have that letter show on the result text box.
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