[Liam Campbell]

If you could explain the code a little bit that would be greatly appreciated. It worked to finish the project but I want to understand to help with situations later on. Thanks again Dan, helpful as always.

Liam

[Liam Campbell]

Thank you, the only thing I had to change was the very last line I made it “value + d” or else it would move to the right.

So is this essentially comparing the width of the bounding box of the search bar to the width of the bounding box of the text minus the margin to determine when the bounding box of the text exceeds that of the search box and therefore should start moving left?

[Liam Campbell]

Thanks for the reply! This is where I am:

chars = [“º” , “_” , “-” , “•” , “˙” , “|”];
seedRandom(5,true)
n = Math.floor(random(0,6))
chars[n] + chars[n] + chars[n] + chars[n] + chars[n] + chars[n]

but obviously all of the “chars[n]” are the same character. What’s a clean way to make them all different?

[Liam Campbell]

I’m assuming that that is sarcasm and that there is no way to do that? I could’ve sworn that whenever I install 3rd party plugins they are able to divide the UI or is that a custom made UI for the plugin?

[Liam Campbell]

The only part of this that I don’t understand is the [textIndex -1] what exactly is this searching for?

[Liam Campbell]

Works perfectly even on multiple lines. What are the various slashes and “s’s” doing and would I only have to change “class” in the expression to change the word?

[Liam Campbell]

I was using random text but I simplified it to “hello class hello” and I was still getting the error.

[Liam Campbell]

When I try it, I get an error that reads “Error at line 2. property or method named 37 in Class ‘Array’ is missing or does not exist. It may have been renamed, moved, deleted, or the name may have been mistyped”

Could you explain what some of the code is doing so I can better understand where this error could be coming from?

Thanks for your help

[Liam Campbell]

Thank you for answering, could you document what some of the lines are doing for me just to help me understand a little bit more what’s going on?

Thanks

[Liam Campbell]

Thank you, works perfectly, could you please explain what the different parts of the expression do just for my own clarification and understanding?

Thanks!