Hi all,
I'm new to the list and need some help - sorry for jumping right into it
like this!
I'm trying to make a word sleuth (you know, a square of humbledy jumbledy
letters out of which you have to find certain words out of consecutive
letters going in various directions) in director and am having trouble with
the script for selecting the words.
I'm a rank beginner at lingo and have been using the Help files and trial
and error but am just totally stuck now. I am sure there are better ways
to do it but what I have done so far is this: every time a letter (sprite)
is clicked on it changes colour, and if it's clicked again it goes back to
the original colour (as a way of deselecting). My idea is that if someone
clicks on all the letters in the word, that word becomes "selected" and
changes to a third colour, and then gets crossed off a list.
I've managed to make a script work for toggling the colours. Can someone
please help me with a way to say, "when this sprite *and* this sprite *and*
this sprite are all "x" colour, change the colour of all those sprites to
"y" colour." It's the changing the colour of all the sprites at once that
I seem to be stuck on. (When I was trialling and erroring(!) I managed to
get it to move to a different frame - which I don't need it to do...lol...
when they were all the same colour, but not to change colour.)
I am really stumbling in the dark here. I wondered if I needed a property
for each word and then a way of saying "when all the sprites are x colour
then property *word* is true" - and then when property *word* is true, do
this or that?
I don't know if I'm making any sense but if anyone can work out what I'm
saying, I would appreciate it *very* much!
Vicki. :-)
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