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wuzel · 2011-05-23 01:11:20

I know I can use the say and think blocks to display some text, but what do I do if I want to display something like a score?

Most of what I seen so far seems to rely on making a sprite that is an image of the text, which seems rather narrows down the possibilites. Is there any other way? Is there a specialist block that could be imported to do this?

Thanks

LordSydney · 2011-05-23 02:23:17

Have a variable "score" and make every correct answer change "score" by however.

wuzel · 2011-05-23 03:50:30

Supposing the score is 327. I can have that value in a variable, but how would I display that value on the screen? There doesn't seem to be any way of displaying text on a screen besides say and think speech bubbles.

scimonster · 2011-05-23 03:55:02

Well, you can use a complicated script that has costumes of all the letters and numbers, and stamp them.

jji7skyline · 2011-05-23 08:09:47

Or you could use a pen and draw the letters and /or numbers like I did on my text render project!

coolstuff · 2011-05-23 09:11:18

The easiest way is with a variable watcher. Just make sure the checkbox next to the variable you want to display is checked, and it will always display the appropriate score.

LS97 · 2011-05-23 11:15:51

As coolstuff suggested:

When you create a veriable, make sure the box is ticked like so

Then, it'll appear on the stage like so, and you can right click it to change its appearance:

Harakou · 2011-05-23 16:14:52

Yup, a variable watcher is definitely the easiest way to display numbers. You can make a system of stamping numbers, but that's generally a pain and can slow the project down, depending on how you do it.

Flait7 · 2011-05-23 17:42:54

Variables display text as well as numbers, just set the variable to a word you want it to be. Or even set the variable to the answer to a question

Last edited by Flait7 (2011-05-23 17:43:08)

Jonathanpb · 2011-05-23 21:23:10

TBH, variable displays are rather ugly tongue Try using stamp displays... download my project Kriza and look at the text sprite for an example smile

Last edited by Jonathanpb (2011-05-23 21:23:36)

wuzel · 2011-05-26 03:57:22

Thankyou everyone for the suggestions. I've got plenty of ideas to experiment with now.

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