Re: FLASH: help quick!

[Kristin K. Rule]

Marc, thanks so much!  What a great help you have been!


Marc Hoffman wrote:


> 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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