Making a Basic Quiz/Testing Application

[Desmond]

Making a Basic Quiz/Testing Application

Document ID: IR10051

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The information in this article applies to:

• AutoPlay Media Studio 5.0 Standard Edition
• AutoPlay Media Studio 5.0 Professional Edition

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SUMMARY

This article describes how to make a simple quiz.

DISCUSSION

As an example, we will create a two page test, and a third page to display the results:

1. Create a project with three pages.
   
   
2. Insert the following code in the Global Functions:
   
   --Each of the following tables contains a question, and 4 answers:
   Q_01 = {Question="How many legs does a three leg'd dog have?", A1="One", A2="Two", A3="Four", ACorrect="Three"};
   Q_02 = {Question="How many legs does a one leg'd cat have?", A1="Three", A2="Two", A3="Four", ACorrect="One"};
   Correct={Q1="",Q2=""};
   
   
3. On Page1, create one paragraph object, and four button objects.
   
   
4. In the On Preload event of Page1, insert the following code:
   
   Paragraph.SetText("Paragraph2", Q_01.Question);
   Button.SetText("Button1", Q_01.A2);
   Button.SetText("Button2", Q_01.A1);
   Button.SetText("Button3", Q_01.ACorrect);
   Button.SetText("Button4", Q_01.A3);
   
   
5. Insert the following code into the On Click event of Button1:
   
   Correct.Q1 = "InCorrect";
   Page.Navigate(PAGE_NEXT);
   
   
6. Insert the following code into the On Click event of Button2:
   
   Correct.Q1 = "InCorrect";
   Page.Navigate(PAGE_NEXT);
   
   
7. Insert the following code into the On Click event of Button3:
   
   Correct.Q1 = "Correct";
   Page.Navigate(PAGE_NEXT);
   
   
8. Insert the following code into the On Click event of Button4:
   
   Correct.Q1 = "InCorrect";
   Page.Navigate(PAGE_NEXT);
   
   
9. On Page2, create one paragraph object, and four button objects.
   
   
10. In the On Preload event of Page2, insert the following code:
    
    Paragraph.SetText("Paragraph2", Q_02.Question);
    Button.SetText("Button1", Q_02.A3);
    Button.SetText("Button2", Q_02.A2);
    Button.SetText("Button3", Q_02.A1);
    Button.SetText("Button4", Q_02.ACorrect);
    
    
11. Insert the following code into the On Click event of Button1:
    
    Correct.Q2 = "InCorrect";
    Page.Navigate(PAGE_NEXT);
    
    
12. Insert the following code into the On Click event of Button2:
    
    Correct.Q2 = "InCorrect";
    Page.Navigate(PAGE_NEXT);
    
    
13. Insert the following code into the On Click event of Button3:
    
    Correct.Q2 = "InCorrect";
    Page.Navigate(PAGE_NEXT);
    
    
14. Insert the following code into the On Click event of Button4:
    
    Correct.Q2 = "Correct";
    Page.Navigate(PAGE_NEXT);
    
    
15. Create one paragraph object on the last page of your project.
    
    
16. Insert the following code into the On Preload event of the last page:

    string_correct="";
    
    
    correct = 0;
    
    
    possible = 0;
    
    
    
    
    
    for j,k in Correct do
    
    
          possible = possible + 1;
    
    
          if k == "Correct" then
    
    
              correct = correct + 1;
    
    
          end
    
    
    end
    
    
    
    
    
    Paragraph.SetText("Paragraph2",  "Question 1: " .. Correct.Q1 .. "\r\n" ..  
    
    
    "Question 2: " .. Correct.Q2 .. "\r\n" ..  
    
    
    "You answered correctly " .. correct .. " out of " .. possible ..
    
    
    " possible questions for a score of " .. ((correct/possible)*100) .. "%."
    
    
    );

KEYWORDS: AutoPlay Media Studio 5.0, Quiz, Test, Multiple Choice

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Last reviewed: September 26, 2003
Copyright © 2003 Indigo Rose Corporation. All rights reserved.

[Centurion]

this doesn't work

[Corey]

I'm pretty sure it does, what specific problem are you having?

[thetford]

it works, you just need to tweek the code a little bit. Desomds code refers to paragraph2, but by default AMS will name a new paragraph object paragraph1

So - you can either re-name your paragraphs, or change the code. :yes