# Simple dialogue system

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**Category:** Coding Questions\
**Created:** [November 18, 2019, 5:17pm UTC](https://discourse.processing.org/t/simple-dialogue-system/15616 "2019-11-18T17:17:03Z")\
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**Post date:** [November 18, 2019, 8:47pm UTC](https://discourse.processing.org/t/simple-dialogue-system/15616/7 "2019-11-18T20:47:47Z")

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`messageCounter` is just doing the different texts. When `messageCounter` reaches maximum we say `message1=true;`

to be honest though, would that be a very long winded and erroneous way if you have multiple screens and multiple messages.

In this case, arrays would be better.

for a similar sketch with arrays see here: [Any idea how to fix this? Quiz](https://discourse.processing.org/t/any-idea-how-to-fix-this-quiz/15418/6)

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