Counting Sprite Occurances on the Stage

[Dazza203]

Hi,

This is quite difficult to explain but I'll try my best. I have created a simple hangman game but at the beginning of each game I want to display the number of letters that are containing in the word on the stage. This should be simple but I am quite new to Director and lingo and I can't work this out. The game works by chosing a word from a list stored in a text box in the cast at random and displaying that number of dash images on the stage depending on the number of letter in the word, surely there must be a simple way of just displaying the number of letters contained in the word on the stage in a text box or something? I have uploaded the entire Director file here:

http://www.nitrohackz.host.sk/game1.rar

to you should be able to see what I am talking about. If this doesn't work for anyone private message me or reply to this message and I'll be happy to email it to you. I know what I want to do must be quite simple I just can't figure it out. Any help would be appreciated because I'm stuck with this.

Thanks,

 

[kennethkawamoto]

length will give you the number of letters in a string.
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put "Word".length
-- 4
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