Txt string placements

[Jafa]

I am needing to , at the press of a button, have several strings, chosen from a larger number, appear onscreen. I want them to arrange themselves (before becoming visible) so that they shift upwards to look like an unbroken paragraph. So just having a particular string appear at a location wont work, because you get gaps. The top of the page- downwards order doesnt matter much. Any help is much appreciated.

[DavidN]

You can alter the contents of a string by using the "Change alterable string" action, and feed some random results into this. For example, if you have your fragments in a List object and wanted to choose a random line each time, it would look something like:

Set alterable string to List Line$("List", random(Number of lines("List"))) + newline$ + List Line$("List", random(Number of lines("List"))) + newline$ + ...etc etc etc.

I can't remember the exact expressions for "text of a line" and "number of lines", but that might point you towards a solution... did this help?

[Jafa]

Uuhhhhh... What I have been doing is roughly "When score is between x and y, display para 1, between y and z display para 2 etc." that works well, for half a dozen separate strings. But not all strings get shown, and different paras come up each time. But if not all the strings get shown, I get gaps in the report page. I was just wondering if there were ways of making the strings shuffle upwards to remove the gaps? I hope that's clearer, Thanks