changing a text members text content with lingo

[kiaoraFiona webforumsuser@macromedia.com]

Is there a way of setting the content of a text member through lingo, specifying where there should be Carriage Return.

I have a director movie that when you press a button, a string should appear in the text box on screen, but the layout is very poor, in that there is no paragraphs.

Is there any way to tell lingo that at a certain point in the text a new line needs to be made.

It has to be done through lingo as the text is made up from the result of a search on a property list.

repeat with i =1 to movieList.count
if movieList> movieList.count then


if movieList.name = member("input").text then

-----------
charNo = the number of chars in member("text").text
member("text").char[(charNo+1)] = string(i)&"."&& string(movieList.name)
----------

this is the part above that I am trying to adjust the layout. After each loop, if the users input equals the property in the list then it outputs the name to the text field after the last charcter that is already there.

Is there a symbol for entering carridge-return, or is there a way in director to assign ascii code?
Any ideas would be great.

[Nick Gordon]

I know you can format your text using the html property
Then the text in your propertylist is actually the html text. so format your text following HTML language. In Lingo you just set the textfield property to HTML. It read then your original text as HTML and you have a lot of
control of your text. However crossplatform issues may occur.

Nick



"\"kiaoraFiona\" webforumsuser"@macromedia.com wrote:

> Is there a way of setting the content of a text member through lingo, specifying where there should be Carriage Return.
>
> I have a director movie that when you press a button, a string should appear in the text box on screen, but the layout is very poor, in that there is no paragraphs.
>
> Is there any way to tell lingo that at a certain point in the text a new line needs to be made.
>
> It has to be done through lingo as the text is made up from the result of a search on a property list.
>
> repeat with i =1 to movieList.count
> if movieList> movieList.count then
>
>
> if movieList.name = member("input").text then
>
> -----------
> charNo = the number of chars in member("text").text
> member("text").char[(charNo+1)] = string(i)&"."&& string(movieList.name)
> ----------
>
> this is the part above that I am trying to adjust the layout. After each loop, if the users input equals the property in the list then it outputs the name to the text field after the last charcter that is already there.
>
> Is there a symbol for entering carridge-return, or is there a way in director to assign ascii code?
> Any ideas would be great.
>
>

[Rob Dillon]

It sounds like you want to add something to the text that already
exists in a text member. You can do that by just adding the text:

member(X).text = member(X).text & newString

If you want to add a carriage return to the text:

member(X).text = member(X).text & RETURN & newString

--
Rob
_______
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Team Macromedia
[url]http://www.ddg-designs.com[/url]
412-243-9119

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[Nick Gordon]

I tried something with CharToNum and found asci for return is 13.
So the following may work as well.
Convert your text to asci and have the values put in a list. So
"I like the way you cook!" becomes
[73, 32, 108, 105, 107, 101, 116, 104, 101, 32, 119, 97, 121, 121, 111, 117, 32, 99, 111, 111, 107, 33]
Now you can add the carriage return which is 13
[73, 32, 108, 105, 107,13, 101, 116, 104, 101, 32, 119, 97, 121, 13, 121, 111, 117, 32, 99, 111, 111, 107,13, 33]
NumToChar will get you this

I like
the way
you cook
!

But it a little tedious
Nick



"\"kiaoraFiona\" webforumsuser"@macromedia.com wrote:

> Is there a way of setting the content of a text member through lingo, specifying where there should be Carriage Return.
>
> I have a director movie that when you press a button, a string should appear in the text box on screen, but the layout is very poor, in that there is no paragraphs.
>
> Is there any way to tell lingo that at a certain point in the text a new line needs to be made.
>
> It has to be done through lingo as the text is made up from the result of a search on a property list.
>
> repeat with i =1 to movieList.count
> if movieList> movieList.count then
>
>
> if movieList.name = member("input").text then
>
> -----------
> charNo = the number of chars in member("text").text
> member("text").char[(charNo+1)] = string(i)&"."&& string(movieList.name)
> ----------
>
> this is the part above that I am trying to adjust the layout. After each loop, if the users input equals the property in the list then it outputs the name to the text field after the last charcter that is already there.
>
> Is there a symbol for entering carridge-return, or is there a way in director to assign ascii code?
> Any ideas would be great.
>
>

[Nick Gordon]

If there was no MacromediaTeam...
I'll have to take a first look at these 'constants'
Nick

Rob Dillon wrote:

> It sounds like you want to add something to the text that already
> exists in a text member. You can do that by just adding the text:
>
> member(X).text = member(X).text & newString
>
> If you want to add a carriage return to the text:
>
> member(X).text = member(X).text & RETURN & newString
>
> --
> Rob
> _______
> Rob Dillon
> Team Macromedia
> [url]http://www.ddg-designs.com[/url]
> 412-243-9119
>
> [url]http://www.macromedia.com/software/trial/[/url]

[srsidman webforumsuser@macromedia.com]

TO add a carriage return, you simply have to use the RETURN command...for instance:

on startMovie me
member("myText").text = "Hello,"&RETURN&"How are you?"
end

In the text member named "myText", the code would print out:

Hello,
How are you?

Hopefully that makes sense...

Good luck.

[kiaoraFiona webforumsuser@macromedia.com]

Thank you everyone for all your help,

I used the RETURN keyword and it works wonders for what I wanted to do.