That worked Vodakman. Thank you very much.

As a beginner, when I finally figure out how to do something, it would be very helpful to be able to save and print out my event sheet so that I could refer back to it when it need to do it again. Is it possible to do so?

What I have done is place a sprite object of the color desired, then put my text object on top of it. Works fine - just wondered if I missed an easier way.

Does the text object have a background color property?

Thank you, guys. Both work for me. Good learning experience.

Posted this on the "How do I ..." forum but havent gotten any replies. Hope Im not breaking any rules by posting it here too.

I'm having trouble getting an explosion sound to play from start to finish, pause for a second or two and then play thru again. Would like to do the same thing with the matching explosion animation. I can do it one anim+sound at a time with a button click, but I would like it to start and then repeat itself perhaps 2-4 times without player clicking a button. Any suggestions?

I'm having trouble getting an explosion sound to play from start to finish, pause for a second or two and then play thru again. Would like to do the same thing with the matching explosion animation. I can do it one anim+sound at a time with a button click, but I would like it to start and then repeat itself a perhaps 2-4 times a few seconds after 'on end of layout' without player clicking a button.

Thank you once again, Korbaach.

I'm unable to write a 2 dimensional Json array. can someone give me a short example?

Bingo! Gmoney - you led me to learning how to post a capx ... Korbaach - you found the error. Thank you guys.

Thank you, blackhornet. Worked like a charm. I'm learning some very basic things from some very helpful forum people.

Hope i've done this dropbox thing right ... when i run the capx and debug, i have all 0 values in the array.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/r5tg6rae02hvz ... .capx?dl=0