Using editable text

Editable text lets users enter text on a web page, customize a game, and so on. When text is editable, editing the text changes the text cast member and all the text in the sprites where the cast member appears.

You can make text editable and let users tab between editable sprites from script or the Property inspector (for more information, see Setting text or field cast member properties).

You can make a text sprite editable in only a certain range of frames in the Score.

To make a text sprite editable in a range of frames:

1. Select a range of frames within a sprite.

   You can select an entire sprite, or Shift-Alt-click (Windows) or Shift-Option-click (Macintosh) to select frames within a sprite.

2. Click the Property inspector's Text or Field tab by using the Graphical view.
3. Click Editable.

To control whether text is editable with Lingo or JavaScript syntax:

• Set the editable property. For more information about this property, see the Scripting Reference topics in the Director Help Panel.

To specify whether pressing the Tab key opens the next sprite for editing:

• Set the autotab property. For more information about this property, see the Scripting Reference topics in the Director Help Panel.