Random Questions?
Phil Davis
davis.phil at comcast.net
Sat Oct 1 13:47:50 EDT 2005
Hi again -
I just realized I may have answered what you weren't asking. :o/
It's still easy! If you have questions that contain multiple
CR-delimited lines, you can do this:
1) separate complete questions with a character that will never appear
in the questions - like a pipe "|" or tilde "~".
2) put that special character between questions.
3) Refer to it this way in code:
set the lineDelimiter to "~" -- or whatever the char is
put any line of fld "questionList" into fld "question"
Thanks -
Phil
Phil Davis wrote:
>
>
> SupermanSlyr at aol.com wrote:
>
>> I'm trying to make a testing program that inserts random questions
>> into a field when the card is open. I was not sure exactly how to go
>> about doing this. This is what I tried to do. I put a field on each
>> card with a few names on it, just to see if I had the random thing
>> down. The I made the field invisible. I tried to scripted the card to:
>> On opencard
>> get random(item 1 of field "ranName") put it into field "Question"
>> end opencard
>> (I know I said the field has names in it. I just wanted to see if I
>> could get random text this way before I went nuts adding long
>> questions.)
>> Also I'm still not 100% sure how (even if the above did work) to
>> make the question occupy more than just one line of text. I assume
>> I'd have to use "item" and maybe a chunk operation? Because I wasn't
>> sure how Revolution knows when an item begins, and when it ends. I
>> just want to make a simple testing program that doesn't always give
>> the same questions. I know the answer is probably very simple, and
>> right under my nose again.
>
>
> You're right - it's easy.
>
> If 'random' is confusing, you can do this instead to display long
> questions:
>
> put any line of fld "ranName" into fld "question"
>
> In Rev fields, a "line" is a string of text ending with a CR. That
> means it can "soft wrap" in a field an still be used as a single line.
>
> HTH -
> Phil Davis
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