How to Make a Typewriter Effect

A typewriter effect is a text effect where text is shown letter by letter, instead of all at once (the default behavior). This article provides a tutorial on how to make a typewriter effect.

Variables

First, create these local variables.

• - a variable used for iteration
• - the contents of the "say" message every iteration

Script

This block can now be used multiple times by dragging the custom block out and filling out the parameters.

Usage

The parameters to be filled in, in order, are:

• The text to be shown
• The number of seconds to wait after the typewriting is finished
• "yes" if the typewriting should end by asking the text as a question, leave it blank otherwise. (If this is "yes", leave the number of seconds to wait blank.)
• The number of characters per second to show. For example, if this is set to 5, every second 5 more characters will have appeared.

See Also

• Say () for () Secs (block)
• Ask () and Wait (block)
• Strings