[MWForum]my students are driving me insane

[Wendy Petti]

I do not think you can change words to italics in an announce box.  But if
the student really wishes to use italics, consider using a textbox which is
usually hidden and becomes visible at the appropriate moment (instead of the
announcement).  Use:

text1, showtext
text1, hidetext

 The disadvantage here is that the textbox lacks an "OK" button to make it
disappear again.  You could include the command

WAIT 100

(or whatever amount of time works well) and then have the textbox
automatically disappear with HIDETEXT. Or you could have a turtle also
appear, wearing the shape of a button with OK on it, and programmed with the
instruction: TEXT1, HIDETEXT HT so that the textbox and the OK "button"
turtle will disappear when the turtle is clicked.

Wendy Petti
OpenWorld Learning
http://www.openworldlearning.org
OWL's MicroWorlds in Action
http://mia.openworldlearning.org


-----Original Message-----
From: mwforum-admin@lists.mathcats.com
[mailto:mwforum-admin@lists.mathcats.com]On Behalf Of Consuella Jackson
Sent: Thursday, May 27, 2004 9:35 AM
To: mwforum@lists.mathcats.com
Subject: [MWForum]my students are driving me insane


Here are two problems students are trying to solve. I am of little help.
One problem was solved as I was typing, so here is the remaining problem.

A student wants some of the words in his 'announce' box in italics. Can it
be done?  We're working in 2.03, but I can move him to a computer that has
the trial version of Pro.


Thanks
Consuella