I hope you are not asking for another cup of coffee for supplying so much
information. ;-)
Seriously , thanks very much for helping. I really appreciate it.
Let me digest all the material you are providing before I post any more
questions.
Genevieve
>From: Kerry Thompson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Subject: Re: <lingo-l> Generating Namelists
>Date: Fri, 05 Oct 2001 16:58:29 -0700
>
>
>>Record is a text field which automatically generates a list of
>>names displayed on the opening screen. I intend to ask the user to
>>choose his name from the list provided.
>
>Then you could display the names like this:
>
>on beginSprite me
> member("Name Display").text = ""
> repeat with i = 1 to member("record").text.line.count
> aName = member("record").text.line[i]
> put aName & RETURN after member("Name Display")
> end repeat
>end beginSprite
>
>There are more efficient and elegant ways of doing the same thing, but this
>is the most straightforward.
>
>> If it is not there, the user types his name in.
>
>You will need an editable text field on screen for that.
>
>>However, is it better to call upon an external text file instead of an
>>internal field?
>
>Sometimes. The field approach is faster. If you're going to save the new
>names, though, you'll need to use a file. Check out the fileIO Xtra. It's
>pretty well documented in tech note 14607 at
>http://www.macromedia.com/support/director/ (click on Tech note index).
>
>>By the way , do you know of some generic code I may learn from?
>
>There's a lot--check out the "Tutorial and Article Index" and "Director
>Examples" on the Macromedia site. Also, Director ships with a lot of sample
>movies, and you can learn a lot by studying the built-in behaviors.
>
>Cordially,
>
>Kerry Thompson
>
>
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