I was looking around in the OBSE command documentation trying to find something that would enable me to take a string of text and put it in a note/letter/scroll/book and then spawn it into the gameworld. I couldn't find anything so I assume it's impossible? I could be missing something though...

I suppose if it is impossible I'll have to use a pop-up message box when the player tries to read the book instead. I was hoping I could actually change the text of a book though.

have a look http://obse.silverlock.org/obse_command_doc.html#Text_Input_Functions.

That's interesting... I originally skipped over that because I wasn't trying to let the player edit the text, I was trying to put text from a string already created into the book, but I wonder if using SetInputText and then CloseTextInput right after could set the text of the book without giving a chance for the player to actually edit the text.

*Goes off and tests* :lightbulb:

http://obse.silverlock.org/obse_command_doc.html#SetDescription says sth. about books. Not sure if this works, though.

Ah yes, Low Post, that did the trick, thanks!

I tried this at first:

scn CMDynamicNoteTeststring_var textbegin onActivate	if (IsTextInputInUse == 0)		openTextInput "%e" 2 200		let text := "New Text"		insertInInputText "%z" text		closeTextInput        endifend

But, it would also print out a weird cursor ("|") character at the end as well.

Low Post's suggestion fixed that though:

scn CMDynamicNoteTeststring_var textref selfbegin onActivate	set self to getSelf	let text := "New Text"	self.setDescription text	activateend

I can even enter HTML formatting too