If I understand your question correctly, I think one way to do what you want is: on opencard put item ( random(the number of items of fld "ranName")) of fld "ranname" into field "Question" end opencard as for using items - by default Rev uses commas as item delimiters, but you can set tah to anything you want. for example : put the itemdel into oldDelim -- stores old delimiter set the itemdel to "^" -- do stufff set the itemdel to oldDelim --- reverts to old delimiter
thus you can seperate your blocks of text with some strange character and use that as the itemdelimiter and you should be good to go. - TJ On 10/1/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I'm trying to make a testing program that inserts random questions into a > field when the card is open. I was not sure exactly how to go about doing > this. > This is what I tried to do. I put a field on each card with a few names on > it, just to see if I had the random thing down. The I made the field > invisible. > I tried to scripted the card to: > > On opencard > get random(item 1 of field "ranName") > put it into field "Question" > end opencard > > (I know I said the field has names in it. I just wanted to see if I could > get random text this way before I went nuts adding long questions.) > > Also I'm still not 100% sure how (even if the above did work) to make the > question occupy more than just one line of text. I assume I'd have to use > "item" and maybe a chunk operation? Because I wasn't sure how Revolution > knows > when an item begins, and when it ends. I just want to make a simple > testing > program that doesn't always give the same questions. I know the answer is > probably very simple, and right under my nose again. > > Thank all of you very, very much! > _______________________________________________ > use-revolution mailing list > [email protected] > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your > subscription preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution > _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list [email protected] Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
