How do I make text change using a specific button?

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- Hopeyqwerty
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Hello, it's me (again)

I'm trying to make a conversation in my game and I'm wondering how I can make it so that once the player has read what's on the screen, they press "Enter" to change the text to the next part of the conversation.

I've had a shot at it, but I think I'm doing it wrong, so I've decided to come here and simply ask :)

Thank you for any help!
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- DiegoM Construct Team Construct 3 Developer
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This is one way of cycling through lines of text defined in an array.

dropbox.com/s/nepxo6gicsdbegn/CycleTextFromFile.c3p
The good thing of doing something like this, is that you don't need to modify the event sheet if you later decide you want to add more lines of dialog.

Even if you aren't familiar with the AJAX or Array plugins, the example is short enough to be able to go through the events one by one. The important bits are commented.

Of course this is just one way of doing it, it's the kind of thing that 10 different people would give you 10 different answers.
- Laura_D Construct Team Community Manager
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Depending on how complex you want to get, JSON is also another option. There is a tutorial course covering various ways of displaying dialogue in games.

Also, if you want to make sure people can't spam their way through a conversation by pressing the enter key, you can use text conditions like Typewriter is Finished (if you want to use typewriter text) to make sure they can only progress the text when it's fully displayed.