How to change text in symbol for slideshow

Question

Hello, Newby here. I have done the lesson 5 in Adobe Edge Animate Classroom in a Book and everything went well up to a point. When I edit the text for the drop down moreinfo symbol it changes the text for all of the slides. How do I make the text individual to each slide??? The book does not explain this. Many thanks for any help.

Answer 1

Since I am not sure what you have I can just give you general info.
To create an array for text, for example create an array called info.
var info = [
'your enter your text for slide 1 here',
'your enter your text for slide 2 here',
'your enter your text for slide 3 here',
'your enter your text for slide 4 here',
'your enter your text for slide 5 here'  // no comma here - it is the last element of the array.
Now you will have to add the code to reach the text in your symbol and this is where it can be tricky, depending what depth it is in. A basic symbol named slide with a text inside named caption would be
sym.getSymbol('slide').$('caption').html(info[0]);
and it will show element 0 in the array (the first element).
The way you call it depends on you.
I usually call it the way I showed above on a click event or another kind of event.