Problems writing a Script ! Pls HELP !

[Klaus Major]

Hi Theo :-)

> Hi,
> I have a Problem ... for school i have to write a little program wich
> translates a normal text into a text written with the morse codes ! I 
> have
> started but i am stuck at the point that metacard only translates one 
> single
> letter .... it's really frustrating i have beening trying out 
> everything for
> about 5 days now.... ! (i am using MetaCard for 4 weeks now!) I think 
> i have
> to make some sort of repeat loop so that metacard checks every word 
> and then
> puts the morse cord in for each word and doesn'T just put in the code 
> for
> the last letter...PLEASE help me !! I am loosing hope that its even 
> possible
> ...here's my Script sofar ... (only got the letters a;b;c cause no 
> üonit of
> doing every letter if the first three ain'T working !
>
> on mouseUp
>   put empty into field "morsetext"
>   put empty into field "standardtext"
>   ask "What would you like to translate?? Was hätten Sie gern 
> übersetzt ??"
>   if it is not empty then
>     set the cursor to watch
>     put it into field "standardtext"
>     put "it" into field "morsetext"
>     put it into filecontent
>     repeat for each word w in filecontent
>       if "a" is in field "standardtext"  then
>         put ".- /" into field "morsetext"
>       end if
>       if "b" is in field "standardtext" then
>         put "-... /" into field "morsetext"
>       end if
>       if "c" is in field "standardtext" then
>         put "-.-. /" into field "morsetext"
>       end if
>     end repeat
>     answer "There you go! Bitte Schön!"
>   end if
> end mouseUp
>
> Thank You alot ...greets theo !!

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Regards

Klaus Major
klaus at major-k.de
http://www.major-k.de