Making dynamic sprites from a cast member

Hello ,realy I am making a movie that it has the words and
the meanings and the pronounciation and the image of the word of 20
lessons ,realy I make a propertly list for the words and the
meanings for each chapter in a text document for each lesson and
retrievet the words and the meanings on the stage and assign the
them into separate sprites made by a text cast member ,Now I have a
problem ,the number of words and new words are not equal for each
lesson ,there fore I look for a way to make the sprites same as the
number of the words of each lesson from the cast member , is it
realy possible ?
Thank you very much
Sincerely yours Mohsena

Hello and thank you for your attention ,yes as you mentioned
I should change the content of the text members ,in this way when I
want tthe words and the meanig of lesson 2 ,I should change the
content ,But my problem is in this phase exactly ,for example if
the lesson 1 has 30 words and meaning and lesson 2 has 20 meaning
,one way is to predefined 30 sprites froem the cast memeber and use
object oritented programming that make just 20 new object for
lesson 1 (I can do it) but realy what is in mind is that ,is it
possible to make the sprites as needed? for example for lesson 1
make 30 sprites ,the somehow destroy them ,and for lessson 2 make
20 sprites?
thank you very much for your attention sincerely yours
Mohsna

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