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I figured out how to get the label to work but I have a new problem.  The HP doesn't update until after both sides attack.  The user attacks through the text parser.  Here is what I am doing:

In the activate function of the text parser I display text, update the HP variables, call a function called DisplayHP, and then call a function called SailorAttack (enemy attack system)
Inside the SailorAttack  function I do the same thing - display text, update the HP of the user, then call DisplayHP
Inside the DisplayHP function is where I change the text of label - depending on who attacks changes which label gets altered.

After the first message is displayed I would like to show updated HP value of the enemy that was just attacked.  I am not sure why but it waits until the enemy attacks back and that message is displayed and updates them both at the same time.

Thanks. That was also of great help.

That will work, thanks for the help.

I thought about doing the gui thing, but the only problem is I want this text to include a variable and the gui label doesn't allow that.  My intention is to use this as an HP meter for a battle scene so I have a variable that stores their HP values.  I tried the character.SayBackground but since I have more than character in the battle and you can't change the location of where you want the text to go, it will only show one of them.  Right now I have it display the health and then it disappears and you attack and then redisplay the health.  I think that looks all right but do you have any other ideas.

Is there any display functions that isn't a blocking function?  I would like to display a message that remains up while the player is allowed to act.

Is there anyway to use the group number associated with a word in the text parser instead of having to type out the word itself?  I want to use this to be able to randomly pick a word using the int values and then convert that int into the word associated with it and output it to the screen.  Is this possible in anyway.

Thank you.  That helped.  I actually had to change it to 32-bit since the only way I could keep the color settings correct on my image files was to save them as 24-bit Bitmaps.

I am getting an error message when I try to import a sprite saying to check color depth and size and try again.  The resolution for my game is 640x480.  The size of my image is 747x1054.  I am not sure if that is problem.   If it is, is there a way to change the size of the image to match the resolution without having to redraw it?  Any help would be great.  Thanks in advance.