User Guide

180 Chapter 8: Text
Modifying strings with Lingo or JavaScript syntax
As time passes or other conditions change, you might want to update and change text. For
example, you might want to frequently update a text sprite that displays the user’s name or a
description of a musical selection that the user is currently streaming from a website. For more
information, see the Scripting Reference topics in the Director Help Panel.
• To set the entire content of a text or field cast member, set the text cast member property to a
new chunk of text. The chunk can be a string or another text cast member.
• To combine character strings, use the & and && operators. The & operator attaches the second
string to the end of the first string. The
&& operator includes a space between two strings when
they are combined.
• To insert a string of characters into another string, use the text property. For example,
sprite(1).text = sprite(1).text + "someWord".
• To delete a chunk expression from a string of text, use the delete method.