Digital Workshop

Hello,

I have just started using Opus. I am familiar with Director and Lingo (Director's programming language) but I am trying to learn Opus as this is the program of choice at my workplace.

My question is how do you reference text? I.e. in director you could create a text object say called Text1, give it a value, say Hello and then change it using a button by using code on the button along the lines of:-

on mouseup me
member(Text1).text = "The new text"
end

Where .text is the property to reference the object Text1's text. What is the equivilent in Opus Script? Or is it more complicated than in Director?

Thanks everyone

Deano.

Hi,

Thank you for your enquiry.

To change the contents of a text object, you first need to select its contents using the SetSelection() function. For example, the following script will select the entire contents of a text object named 'Text':



Once selected, you simply need to use the ReplaceSelection() function to insert the required string or variable into the object. For example:



The text object named 'Text' should now display This is my text.

Kind regards,

Kind regards,