Ok Will,
ARe YOu REady?
Here is a step-by-step(some of which is probably
WAY too elementary for you, but maybe some newbie will also benefit.)
1. Create Actor(Normal): Name it "myactor" (without quotes).
2. Right Mouse Click on the "myactor" smiley icon. Select "Actor Control".The Actor Panel will open.(Make sure "myactor" is selected in the "Actor Name:" box.)
3. Select the text button in the "myactor" Actor Panel.
The "Set Text" Panel will open.
4. Put the following text into the grey text box area: "Elect Will for President. He knows how to lead and he knows how to listen!"
5. Now, select the "New Font" button -->truetype font. Select a font of your choice; say "arial.ttf". Change the font size to 12. Select OK. (Now you should see your text displayed on the GE screen. So, now you have placed some text
into your Actor.
6. Next, add the Event: "Create Actor" and the Action: "Script Editor". The "myactor" Script Editor Panel will open.
7. Finally, copy and paste the following code into the script editor:
strcpy(myactor.text,"Once you can accept the universe as \n");
strcat(myactor.text,"matter expanding into nothing that is something,\n");
strcat(myactor.text,"wearing stripes with plaid comes easy.\n");
strcat(myactor.text," --Albert Einstein.\n");
8. Select the OK --> Immediate Action.
9. Run the program.
If you have followed all the steps correctly, you will see the strcpy() text has been copied into "myactor" text and it will replace the original text that you typed into "myactor" on the text panel in Step 4. The"\n" is a special C programming character that simply means insert a newline. Or in older terminology: carriage return.
Hey, but what the heck is the strcat() function? I'll leave that one up to you to find out! Hint: look it up in a C programming reference.
That is about it for now. HTHs...J4F