Special Edition Using® Macromedia® Director® MX

Chapter 13. Using Lingo to Alter Text Members

In This Chapter
Field Properties and Functions	358
Text Member Properties and Functions	361
Creating Text Lists	364
Creating Text Pop-Up Menus	366
Using Rich Text Format	369
Using HTML and Tables	370
Using HTML and Hypertext	374
Troubleshooting	377
Did You Know?	377

Field Properties and Functions

A field member’s primary property is the text it contains. You can get this text in Lingo with the text property of the member. You can also use the Lingo syntax field to refer to any field’s text as if it were a string.

Using field, you can use the put commands and chunk expressions directly on the field contents without having to first store them in a string variable. For instance, if a field holds the text “Hello World,” ...