Creating a short question answer with radio buttons

[Peter Haworth]

Hi Shawn,
I emailed you offlist with a little stack that demonstrates the way I
described to do this.

Good luck!
Pete
lcSQL Software <http://www.lcsql.com>



On Fri, Aug 31, 2012 at 7:14 PM, Shawn Blc <shawnlivecode at gmail.com> wrote:

> Peter, thank you for the reply!  It'll take me a few days to wrap my big
> head around this.   In the meantime I'll still be tinkering.  I'm sure one
> day all of this will "click".  Just like anything else.
>
>
> Regards,
>
> Shawn
>
>
>
> On Fri, Aug 31, 2012 at 7:43 PM, Peter Haworth <pete at lcsql.com> wrote:
>
> > Hi Shawn,
> > Probably lots of ways to do this, here's one.
> >
> > First thing to do is put the checkboxes for each question into a group -
> > that ensures that only one can be selected at a time.  You might call the
> > groups Q1, Q2, Q3, etc
> >
> > Then define a custom property of each group that specifies the correct
> > answer in terms of the name of the checkbox.  In your example, you'd call
> > your buttons 1,2,3,4 and the custom property (let's call it
> > "correctAnswer") of group Q1 would have the value 4.
> >
> > FInally, when your user indicates that they've finished answering
> > questions, you'd use a repeat loop like this
> >
> > put the groupIDs of this card into tGroupIDs
> > put zero into tRight
> > put zero into tWrong
> > repeat with each line tGroupID in tGroupIDS
> >    if the correctAnswer of group ID tGroupID is not empty and the
> > hilitedbuttonname of group ID tGroupID is the correctAnswer of group ID
> > tGroupID then
> >       add 1 to tRight
> >    else
> >       add 1 to tWrong
> >    end if
> > end repeat
> > <Do whatever you want to do with tRight and tWrong here>
> >
> > Only thing to watch out for is that the GroupIDs property includes only
> the
> > top level groups on a card so be sure that your Qn groups aren't
> contained
> > within any other groups.  The first condition of the if statement above
> > deals with any toher groups you might have on the card that are not
> > question groups, since they won't have a correctAnswer cprop.
> >
> > I haven't tested any of that but it should work.  No doubt you'll get
> > other, equally as good, solutions.
> >
> > Hope that helps.
> >
> > Pete
> > lcSQL Software <http://www.lcsql.com>
> >
> >
> >
> > On Fri, Aug 31, 2012 at 5:17 PM, Shawn Blc <shawnlivecode at gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> >
> > > Disclaimer:  I'm totally new to LiveCode, bought Colin's PDF file, read
> > the
> > > scripting conference stack on controls, etc.  As of yet, I haven't
> really
> > > created anything of value to me or anyone else.  I'm trying to change
> > that.
> > >  I've had the Gold Bundle for over a month.
> > >
> > > I'm trying to create a short question and answer program, the answers
> > will
> > > be supplied in radio buttons.  Example:   A square has how many sides?
> > A)
> > > 1 B) 2 C) 3 D) 4 (these would be radio buttons).
> > >
> > > I'll have to keep track of the right and wrong answer and show a score
> at
> > > the end.
> > >
> > > If anyone can give me a short example or show me where to find it,
> thank
> > > you.
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