Hi,
What is the syntax to get the first word of a sentence in a textMember?
thanks!
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From: "Brad Hile" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, January 22, 2003 4:07 PM
Subject: RE: <lingo-l> Create text field - I can't find info about it
> Uni wrote:
> > I'm trying to make a list of words with the equal translation
> > next to those
> > words.
> > i.e.
> >
> > makan : to eat
> > tidur : to sleep
> > duduk : to sit
> > etc...
> >
> > Because I have about 100 words, I guess it is not very effective if I
have
> > to type every single words...
> > So, I was thinking about putting those words into lingo propertylist and
> > then access them using lingo getList or other.
> >
> > now, I want every word put into a single text field because I
> > want the user
> > tobe able to click on the word to hear the pronunciation of the word
> > clicked.
> >
> > My question is: Is there a way to create a textfield on the fly
> > (using lingo
> > scripting) so I can create a textfield and then get the word from the
> > propertyList and then put the word into the text field?
> >
> > Any advise or help is more than welcome...
> >
> > Thanks!
> >
> > Regards,
> > Uni
>
> Not quite sure what you need but try this:
> You can create a text member on the fly using new(type,castLib)
> eg. newText=new(#text,1)
> newText.name="myText"
>
> Text can be drawn from your propertylist using a simple getaprop
> masterList=[#makan:"to eat",#tidur:"to sleep"]
> translation=masterList.getaProp(#makan)
> myText.text=translation
> Assign to a sprite location via puppetsprite(channel,true/false)
> eg.myPuppet=puppetsprite 100, 1
> myPuppet.member=myText
> If you have a lot of words that yiou want to put on screen then use a
repeat
> loop and set the loc of the puppet sprite
> You can reuse the same member though by simply referencing the
> member("myText").text=some value
>
> I think though you would be better off though with a more expanded
> propertyList that you can use like a database
> masterList=[#makan:[#translation:"to eat",#audiofile:"makan.wav"]
> Then you just need to query the masterlist for everything associated with
> each word
> record=masterList.getaProp(#makan)
> translation=record.translation
> audio=record.audiofile
>
> Hope this goes someways towards what you need
> Brad
>
>
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