Modifying tut

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Hi,

I have been messing about trying to adapt a tut I found… It displays flying words “in space”…Its not far off what I am after and I have very limited flash experience. That said I have learnt a lot over the last week but still am not getting anywhere with this:

What I am trying to do is to change this from displaying individual words to phrases…

Could anyone help point me in the right direction?

ActionScript Code:
Object.environment = this;

this.cam = {x:0, y:0, z:500, dx:0, dy:0, dz:-500};

this.fl = 1000;

this.createEmptyMovieClip(“space”,1);

space._x=300;
space._y=169;

this.somewords = “Le vent qui souffle dans mon arbre, dans ses rêves sa promise, le coeur à l’envers”;

this.wordList = new Array();
this.wordList = this.somewords.split(" ");

for (n=0;n<this.wordList.length;n++) {

var word = Object.environment.wordList[n];
var x = random(600)-300;
var y = random(337)-169;
var z = random(Object.environment.fl*2)-Object.environment.fl;

nombre = "word"+String(depth++);
initialization = {txtword: word, x: x, y: y, z: z};
space.attachMovie("spaceWord", nombre, depth, initialization);

}

this.onEnterFrame = function() {
this.cam.dz+=.5;

this.cam.x+=(this.cam.dx-this.cam.x)/10;
this.cam.y+=(this.cam.dy-this.cam.y)/10;
this.cam.z+=(this.cam.dz-this.cam.z)/30;

}

stop();

kindly,

lwl

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Your key part in this code is where it splits the string on each space to get the individual words

this.somewords = “Le vent qui souffle dans mon arbre, dans ses rêves sa promise, le coeur à l’envers”;
this.wordList = new Array();
this.wordList = this.somewords.split(" ");

You could just directly define the array of phrases:

this.wordList = new Array(“A phrase in here”,“instead of of only”,“single words”);

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Hi East Coast,

Well once again you have proven that more often than not the answer is the most obvious and simplest - which of course I dismissed as not being possible - it couldn’t be that easy…:lol: thanking you very much!