Need Help With Morse Code Translator

[Anthony Laman]

Hi all,

I've been attempting to translate basic text into Morse Code for the past few hours, and I tried using a code like this to get the desired effect.

On the main screen, I had hoped you would just type in a letter or series of letters, and it would come out as the appropriate series of dots and dashes, corresponding to the letter entered.

Instead, whenever I hit the submit button, no matter what I type in, it will immediately show every period and dash that I entered into the replace block. Is there anyway to make it so my english letters will be translated directly into the morse code that the user inputs?

Thank you.

[Taifun]

the join block will not work like that, you have to use nested replace all blocks

but what about doing a search in the forum to find some probably nicer solutions?

see here https://groups.google.com/forum/#!searchin/mitappinventortest/morse%7Csort:date

Taifun

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[SteveJG]

How to send Morse Code sequences of dots and dashes has previously been discussed in the Forum Anthony.  Here are several possible links  https://groups.google.com/forum/#!searchin/mitappinventortest/morse$20code%7Csort:date .    Some of these contain blocks and even an aia you can model.  There are more efficient ways of substituting 

dits and dahs ....  periods and dashes that are a graphic representation of morse code.      When Morse is written  for    happy , it is usually written    ..../.-/.--./.--./-.--     .  The real way to represent Morse is to send a sound file of the actual codes.    

See the Forum discussions and have fun.

Regards,

Steve