User Guide

Lingo by Feature 25
Sprite color
Use these terms to check and set a sprite’s color:
Stage
These terms are useful for controlling the Stage and determining its size and location:
Tempo
Use the puppetTempo command to control a movie’s tempo.
Text
The terms in this section are useful for working with text, strings, and fields.
Manipulating strings
Use these terms to manipulate strings:
Chunk expressions
Use these terms to identify chunks of text:
backColor color (sprite and cast member property)
bgColor foreColor
centerStage stageColor
fixStageSize stageLeft
picture (window property) stageRight
stage stageTop
stageBottom updateStage
& (concatenator) put...before
&& (concatenator) put...into
delete string()
hilite (cast member property) stringP()
put...after text
char...of number (words)
chars() offset() (string function)
contains paragraph
EMPTY ref
item...of selection (text cast member property)
itemDelimiter selectedText
last() selEnd (fields only)
length() selStart (fields only)