Digital Workshop

The facility to convert imported or incorrectly typed text from
Upper to Lower case

That should be fairly easy?


Pete

Maybe I'm missing something here but if I want to change the case of imported text, I use my word processor to convert the text before I import it.

If I type the text incorrectly, I would hope that I would notice the error before it became an issue.

I see these manual corrections as being simpler than asking for Opus to grow in size to become a de facto word processor -- which it isn't.

There are many things that I need to do with text, images, videos and audios before I use them in Opus.

There is an enormous amount of inexpensive special-purpose software (like shareware) which performs these tasks effectively and efficiently.

After making the mods I need, Opus readily accepts my new files. Over many years these have proved to be most effective alternatives to having perhaps limited functionality added to Opus.

Hi,

Thank you for your enquiry.

Text imported using the 'Automatically read in this disk file' setting in the properties of the text object cannot be manipulated in this way. However, if you import the contents of the text file into a variable, using the Read from Disk File action or Read() script function, there are a number of string functions available which will allow you to convert the case.

For example, the following script will read the contents of a text file named 'text.txt' and store this information into a variable named 'text'. The toLowerCase function then converts the information to lower case:



I hope this helps. Please do not hesitate to contact me if you have any further queries.

Kind regards,

Sentosa....
Fair points.... However

We do obtain text from a variety of sources and suppliers

As this is meant to be a wishlist
I just added it a a productivity enhancement idea -
because the same argument can be used for spellchecking!


Pete

Robin
Was unaware of the solution that you posted
Pete

I have also had the need to make universal changes to text like Pete said.
I too have to cut and paste sometimes to save hours of re-typing. Some of the really uninformed customers out there like to use all caps for example. Being able to make a universal change to lower case and then fix up the words at the start of a sentence is still far better than re-typing. I don't even know if any of the word processing programs will do this which would help. I try to stay away from running text through any of the word processing programs cause they insert their own formatting crap which Opus doesn' t like either.

Since this is a wishlist section, not a problem solver, why not ask?

You can change the case of text in Word. There is a Change Case option on the format menu.

I'm going to go with Ray's thought that you should do text adjustments like changing to Upper/Lower case using a word processor instead of bloating OPUS with this seldom used task.

It only makes sense to use a video editor to make MPEG or AVI files; graphic tools to make adjustments to images; and audio editors to modify or record sound files. Those tools are specialized and do a specific job very well.

Let's keep DW on the "interactive, multimedia, simulation tool" path rather than wandering off into "word processing land."

Thanx Tony!