nobody?

I skimmed your code because I was not sure what exactly it was that you wanted but it seems like the problem is setting wordappear to true right before a condition that checks if it is true;

This was very difficult to solve, but I think with this you might be better off.

Greetings, Chrisir

1. // -------------------------------------------------------------------
2. // VARS
3. String[] words = {
4.   "sit", "question", "save", "bell", "taste", "seven", "one", "boot"
5. };
6. int frames;
7. char State;
8. int timeToNextw;
9. int timeOffset1;
10. PFont fontA;
11. float hold;
12. boolean wordappear;
13. // -------------------------------------------------------------------
14. // IN-BUILD FUNCTIONS
15. void setup() {
16.   State = 'A';
17.   size(600, 600);
18.   background(255);
19.   frameRate(60);
20.   hold=millis();
21.   fontA = createFont ("Arial-BoldMT-16.vlw", 16);
22. }
23. void draw () {
24.   if (State == 'A') {
25.     if (millis()-hold > 900) // to the next state
26.     {
27.       //background(255);
28.       wordappear = true;   // here the boolean but it dont work
29.       if (wordappear  == true) {
30.         word(); // one random word
31.         // wordappear = false;       //word not more than once (doesnt work)
32.       }
33.       State = 'B';
34.       hold=millis();
35.     }
36.   } // if
37.   if (State == 'B') {
38.     if (millis()-hold > 900) // to the next state
39.     {
40.       background(255);
41.       println("Hi ");
42.       State = 'A';
43.       hold=millis();
44.     } // if  
45.     //State = 'A';
46.   } // if
47. } // func
48. // -------------------------------------------------------------------
49. // OTHER FUNCTIONS
50. void word () {
51.   float side = random(2) ;
52.   if (side <= 1) { 
53.     side = 100;
54.     println( "left");
55.   }
56.   else {
57.     side = 500;
58.     println( "right");
59.   }
60.   if (words.length>0) {
61.     textFont(fontA, 16);
62.     fill (10);
63.     int index = int(random(0, words.length)); 
64.     println(words[index]);  // print one of the six words
65.     text(words[index], side, 300);
66.     if (words.length>0) {
67.       words[index] = words[words.length-1];
68.     }
69.     words = shorten(words);
70.   }
71. } // function
72. // ---------------------------------------------------------------------
73. // END