How do I make text different each time I press a key?

I am making a game, and one of my layouts has a conversation that keeps changing the text any time a key is pressed. How do I do this?

It picks something at random or it's a predetermined conversation that runs until an end point?

Pre-determined.

You could add the text strings to array and push them through as the conversation goes on, you can keep deleting the top element of the array so (0,0) will show in the text box. You could set up an event that says when a variable is such a value then set text to something, such as 0=show textA, 1=show textB, increase the variable on key press.

Here is something I've been trying, I made it so when I clicked, the text would change to the next line of dialogue, but when I test it out it automatically goes to the last line. How do I fix this?

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Would you mind posting a capx with the logic you’re using? If it’s moving through to the end, likely it isn’t being accurately bound by clicking (or perhaps your variables are repeatedly adding until hitting a limit while you click)

Here's the file to the game.Since I can't post links yet you can just copy and paste.

sta.sh/04y9obml3du

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Dang, that file is 45MB! Is it possible to maybe just post a screenshot of the relevant events?

http://www.blackhornettechnologies.com/Construct2Stuff/RevampedSpider_dcac8fk_bht.capx

(I removed the video to reduce size).

Sure thing, though it'll have to wait since I'm still in school right now.

sta.sh/0dzy662tfcs

Aaaaand here's the screenshot of the problem.

Okay. I assume the problem is that C2's trigger events are basically true for one frame - ie the on-mouse-click check is true for 1 tick. But during that tick your text events all become true one after the other. It's like you're saying

if user is clicking & thing is 1 - set 1 to 2

if user is clicking & thing is 2 - set 2 to 3

But the user is clicking the whole time the code is cycling through, so the 1 becomes 2 and 3 instantly, and the end user only sees the 3 when it's output.

Okay. So what do we do about it? What I like to do is implement a cooldown time for advancing text. Give your text object an instance variable number called coolDown. Now you can do events like this:

User clicks & coolDown = 0 & text is "whatever" > set text to "whatever 2", set coolDown to 10. (etc)

coolDown > 0: subtract -1 from coolDown.

Now the game will only be allowed to do ONE click check every 10 frames.