createTextField() in Lingo????

[samwilson123 webforumsuser@macromedia.com]

Is there a way to duplicate or create new text field members in Lingo? In Actionscript I'd do this with the createTextField () method... I'm working on a huge CD-ROM project that would be greatly improved with this simple functionality.

Thank you in advance very much for your help.

-Sam

[JB]

To create a new member:

newMemberNum = new(#field)

Getting it into the score is a bit more trickey, if automating the
authoring process one could use scorerecording.

[samwilson123 webforumsuser@macromedia.com]

Thank you, I found a pretty useful method that I've been studying, which has revealed to me how to create dynamic sprites/members in Director:

on createManyTextMembers me
stopwatch_start=the milliseconds
repeat with i= 2 to 101
newmem=new(#text, castLib("bulletCast"))
newmem.text=string(i-1)
newmem.fontSize=9
--create sprites from 11 and upwards
puppetSprite i+10, 1
sprite(i+10).member=member(newmem.member.number)
-- never mind the loc, it looks ugly, I just want Director to draw to the stage.
sprite(i+10).loc=point(10, i*10)
end repeat
--compare forcing Dir to redraw the stage before putting the alert up and
--stopping the timer, and not doing that - by commenting out the updatestage command.
updatestage

stopwatch_stop=the milliseconds
alert "total time:" && stopwatch_stop-stopwatch_start && "milliseconds" & RETURN & "started at" && stopwatch_start & RETURN & "stopped at" && stopwatch_stop
end

Thanks again for your help!