Warren
Thank you for this detailed response. However, when I entered your handler I
got an error message:
"Script Error. Wrong type
mTextMember=new(#text,"Internal")
"Internal"
Could you suggest why this is so?
I'm using the internal cast.
John
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From: "Howdy-Tzi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, December 04, 2002 9:14 PM
Subject: Re: <lingo-l> New learner: how do write a handler that inserts text
memebers in the cast?
> On Wednesday, December 4, 2002, at 02:35 PM, John Lodge wrote:
>
> > Yesterday, for example, I wanted to write a handler which would insert
> > text
> > into the first five members of the cast. Could I do it? Not a chance!
>
> This can probably be most easily accomplished with a repeat loop,
> something that uses a counter to perform a repetitive task a given
> number of times. In your case it may be something like:
>
> on InsertMembers
> repeat with nMem = 1 to 5
> mTextMember = new ( #text, "Internal" )
> mTextMember.text = "This is member number" && nMem.string()
> end repeat
> END InsertMembers
>
> As you can see it begins with a 'repeat' declaration, stating in
> essence that Director is to begin with 1 and proceed through 5
> (inclusive), plugging those number values -- as it goes along -- into
> the variable 'nMem'. That's the counter.
>
> Inside the repeat loop itself, we start by calling #text members into
> existence in the 'Internal' cast library. (You can specify other casts;
> for instance if you had a movie with an additional cast called "text",
> you could specify that as your creation target.) We make the #text
> member a reality simply by using the new() keyword, passing in to
> Director's internal command set the type (#text) and target cast
> location ("Internal"). While this isn't really necessary if you have
> only one cast, it is a good habit to have.
>
> On the next line we put a little text into each member as it's created.
> As you may infer, the #text member contains a phrase that identifies
> itself as the one made within a particular iteration of the loop. You
> could also plug values into the members' names as you make them
> instead, reserving the 'text' call for something else (such as parts of
> a text file on disk or some such).
>
> We use the 'string()' specifier to make sure Director understands that
> it is to interpret the 'nMem' item as text rather than a number. That's
> not strictly necessary either, since it's being concatenated with a
> string by the '&&', and Director is bright enough to realize that you
> want the value in the 'nMem' variable to be treated as text instead of
> an integer in that case, but it's a good habit to be in.
>
> To get the above going you'd enter it in a movie script, close the
> script window and then call the function from the message window:
>
> -- Welcome to Director --
> InsertMembers
>
> That's the basic idea. As a somewhat shameless plug, I've got a
> beginner's guide out. Might be worth a gander. ;)
>
>
> Warren Ockrassa | http://www.nightwares.com/
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