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Re: [ECS] Appending Text Carl Keyes Thu, 10 Sep 1998 16:42:56 +0000

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Martin,

Great, I love dealing with experience. Now I have to go and re-write
all my text events. Weren't any of you list guys ever beginners?

Later,

Carl


Martin Terry wrote:
> 
> Well, basically for ECS, a text item has to be "pre defined". In other
> words, if ECS had an event to speak, say, 10 static messages then 10
> text items must exist, or you have to build each text item word by word
> or character by character from an event. (Which comes in handy when you
> need to speak the state of an item).
> 
> But I had dozens of static messages ("Next week is your anniversary",
> etc). So I wrote an event that uses only one text item "Txt_Generic" and
> populates it with external messages as necessary, each time overwriting
> the last one.
> 
> Saved a lot on Text Items.

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