I need a simple touch text action that will work with my A6 using the old templates. So I can attach it to doors in a hall, and when you click on them a message pops up to tell you something, like "This is the Boss's office"
THe touch text routine is short, I rememebr, so I can write a differnt action for each door, to describe different rooms.

Thanks

perhaps this will help you:

Code:

---

define _id,	skill1;


define _info_range,	96;		//mouse_range??? / range/distance object-info appears
define _info_offset_x, 8;		//offset x/y from mouse_spot
define _info_offset_y, 8;


font info_font = <ackfont.pcx>,6,8;		//max height 26


//here you can define the info strings:

string id_txt_1 = "small bottle";
string id_txt_2 = "medium bottle";
string id_txt_3 = "big bottle";
//...

string id_txt_0 = " ";				//necessary else engine-failure


//----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

text info_txt
{
	font = info_font;

	layer = 2;
}


//----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------


string info_txt_temp;		//temporary string-store 
string info_txt_num;


starter mouse_info
{
	var id;

	var _vec_from[3];
	var _vec_to[3];

	while(1)	
	{		
		

		if(mouse_mode)		//mouse active???
		{
			info_txt.pos_x = info_pan.pos_x + 2;
			info_txt.pos_y = info_pan.pos_y + 2;

			_vec_from.x = mouse_pos.x;
  			_vec_from.y = mouse_pos.y;
		}


 		_vec_from.z = 0;
		
		vec_set(_vec_to.x,_vec_from.x);
		_vec_to.z = _info_range;
		
		vec_for_screen(_vec_from.x,camera);
		vec_for_screen(_vec_to.x,camera);
		
		me = player;
		trace_mode = ignore_me + ignore_passable;
		trace(_vec_from.x,_vec_to.x);

		if(you){ if(you._id){id = your._id;}else{id = 0;} }else{id = 0;}		//object touched??? -> get id


		if(id && mouse_mode)
		{
			str_cpy(info_txt_temp,"info_txt.string = id_txt_");
			str_for_num(info_txt_num,id);
			str_cat(info_txt_temp,info_txt_num);
			
			execute(info_txt_temp);		//show id-text

			info_txt.visible = on;
			

		}else{
				info_txt.visible = off;		

		}

		wait(1);
	}
}
Code:


just give a number to skill1 in WED and id_txt_"number" will be viewed