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Okay Craig, I give up--how do you do it? I'm a real newbie, so this really is beyond me, but timers are important to me, so I'm dying to know! Thanks, Andrew

Awesome--your replies are both extremely helpful. Thanks!

Say you have a field with a few paragraphs of text and you want to randomize the text and put it in another field. This is just for fun. Here is what I have: on mouseUp repeat with x = 1 to the number of words in field "originalText" put any word in field "originalText" & space after field "newText"...

Thanks, that's extremely helpful! I'm sure I'll be back with more questions after I try this out.

Thanks again!

Hi! I am learning all about LiveCode after many years off the scripting horse. I took some Hypercard programming classes about 20 years ago and loved it, and I'm really excited to have found LiveCode! I want to make a task-timing application and am not sure where to begin. I've looked at several tut...