Re: FLASH: Learning interactions (radio buttons)

[Helen Triolo]

Gerardo (and anyone else who might be interested),


Over the weekend, I put a one-frame movie together that creates two

user-defined objects (a radio button object, and a question object that

contains radio buttons) and uses these objects to display questions and

return the answers.  I've posted it, with a downloadable fla, at my

Flash 5 journal:

http://i-technica.com/flash5/index.html, Jan 8 entry


You could just copy the 2 objects, the toggleChoice method (used by

questionObject),  and global variable nNextDepth (which I wish could be

incorporated into the objects more neatly, but I couldn't think of a

way) and then change the lines that create new question objects to suit

your own purposes.  Those lines look like this:


oQuestion1 = new questionObject(1,"Which city is in Asia?",["Moscow",

"Lima", "Tunis", "Chengdu", "Kona"],3,220,40);


where the parameters are:

  question number

  question text

  array of answers

  correct answer (array index)

  x location on stage where question is to begin

  y location (same)


You'll also need to use the 3 mc's and on/off button in the library (or

some equivalent) and make sure linkages are set appropriately for

radioButtonMC and questionTextMC.  showAnswers is an MC that is blank,

but contains an onClipEvent(enterFrame) routine to continuously display

the selected answer.  It's dragged onto the stage to update the answer

display, and would need to be changed as necessary for your purposes

also.


(This may be just as confusing as the Learning Interactions example; I

did it as sort of a learning sample for myself so am not sure how easy

it is to follow or modify for someone else...)


Regards,

Helen 

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 wrote:

> 

> Hi everyone!

> 

> I'm trying to use the new learning interactions that come with Flash 5 in a

> small test application.  I use 4 radio buttons where the user can click in

> answer to a question.  My problem:  How do I keep track of what radio button

> they clicked? In other words how do I get the state of a radioButton using

> ActionScript.  I thought that these learning interactions save time, but

> instead this small project is taking longer.


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