Re: FLASH: help quick!

[Marc Hoffman]

Hi Kristin.


This calls for an understanding of movie clips and TellTarget.  You would

have a movie clip (MC) present in a higher layer than the quiz

questions/answers, always present in the timeline.  Here's an example of an

architecture that would work for the MC:


a) Frame 1: no graphics, has a frame action: Stop. Flash designers often

refer to this as a Park frame.

b) Frame 2: the "Sorry, try again" graphic. Give it a frame label: "wrong."

c) Frames 3-12 are empty and serve as a timer.  Adjust the number of frames

so the graphic in b) will linger awhile. Frame 12 is a KeyFrame and has the

frame action "Go to frame 1 and stop"

d) Frame 13 has a frame label "right" and a graphic "That's Right!" (I

figure you want to congratulate the user, no?)

e) some blank frames, the same as c), that is, a built-in timer that

eventually returns the MC to frame 1 where it stops.

f) in Frame 13 you also need a frame action that tells the main timeline to

move ahead to the next question. So, in addition to the action that sends

the MC back to frame 1, also have the action:

Begin TellTarget

	target: ../    [this refers to the main timeline]

	play

End TellTarget


Now place the movie clip on the main timeline in its own layer so it's

always present. You may want to temporarily place a graphic in frame 1 of

the movie clip so you can see it while placing it on the stage, then go

back to the symbol and remove the frame 1 graphic.


Double-click the movie clip and give it the instance name "response."


The answers to your quiz must be buttons. The "wrong" answer buttons are

programmed like this:


On Release

	Begin TellTarget

		Target: /response

	Go to frame

		label: wrong

	End TellTarget

End On


The "right" answer buttons are programmed like this:


On Release

	Begin TellTarget

		Target: /response

	Go to frame

		label: right

	End TellTarget


The only thing left to do is to create the quiz on the main timeline.

Every frame should be a keyframe with a Stop action built in, the question,

and the answer buttons. Your last frame can say "Congratulations, you made it!"



At 08:44 PM 2/14/99 -0500, you wrote:

>I have a question.  What is the simplest and best way to set up interactive

>questions in Flash?  I have a slide by slide presentation.  When you get

to one

>slide, there is a question with a choice of 4 answers.  For example, it says

>"What color is the sky?" and there are 4 answers to choose from- red, blue,

>green and purple. If the user picks anything but blue, I need another graphic

>to pop up and say, "sorry, that's wrong.  Try again".  Then the user is given

>the four choices again.  Only if they pick "blue", will they be able to

>continue to the next slide.



Marc Hoffman

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