strange Shuffler

howdy alhurayas,

your game is really turning out well. i think i understand how the game will work; but to be sure, please answer these 3 questions:

1) is this correct: the teacher will listen to students as they read each word, and then assign scores to the student(s) if they said the word correctly?

2) can more than one student get points for each word?

3) can you use a score keeping feature like this ? [that fla is attached in my post titled "whew!" - about 9 posts before this one]

i have another question, but will let you consider these first...

hi azwaldo glade to hear your post (i mean read ) these are the answer
1. yes
2.no
3. you can ; although there is another way which is (especially if there is lots of kids ) take out , the kids line in queue 4 lines the answerer take one of the first line out untill there is only one winner
thank hope this was clear forgive if not
thanksssssssssss
:) :) :)

hi al,
did you read megolomor's last post (page 4 of the thread in my browser),

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"...it is unclear what the next step is to be solved. I think we got sidetracked into figuring out the general game rules that whatever problem remains got lost.

please post your latest file and describe what you need help with."

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if you did not understand the answer for your third question it juict simply yes you can
thank help need in removing the choosen word from the array then disabling the button with out repeation
thanks

for this:

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"...help need in removing the choosen word from the array..."

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find the Array (object) at the macromedia support site, then look for the Array.shift method. that will remove the first item in the array

if you are still randomizing the words in your array, then showing the players the first word in that 'list', Array.shift should work; but, if you want to randomly select a word from that list, you'll need to use Array.splice to remove the word

for example, in this array:

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theArray = ["apple","ant","arrow","aspirin"]

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use theArray.shift() to remove "apple"
use theArray.splice(2,1) to remove "arrow"
you will use your array names in place of "theArray"

both methods are explained at the macromedia site

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"...then disabling the button with out repeation ..."

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i do not understand this; try describing it in steps again, like this:
1 - user clicks "m" button,
2 - the last word of the "m" array...
3 - ...

hello alhurayas,

i have located the problem with the array repeating the last item before the button is disabled.

i have attached an fla that traces all the variables being passed to the button_press function.

one of the problems is that

code:

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on (press) {

	_root.framtext.gotoAndPlay(2);

	Game = 1;

	clearInterval(myTimer);

	button_press(14);

}

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all 26 of your buttons are telling the frametext movie to play completely independent of the logic that is taking place in the button_press function.


the best way to fix it is:

1)update the function so that it checks to see if the button should be disabled AFTER it has run.

when you test the movie i gave you pay close attention to what is happening in the output panel. maybe you can understand better why it doesn't work.

i am going to sleep now, but will be able to fix it tomorrow if you need help.

i forgot to mention the structure and organization of your FLA is very impressive. i saw one from soneone else recently that was pure slop.

yes i think you are right meglomor (with thank you)
but how do i fix it i tryed to make the c counter = 1 but sitll not luck
thank

basically the old button press function was checking if the contervar was < the arrays length. if this was true the word would spin out. and contrervar would be incremented by one coutervar++.

you would then have to press again to see if the button had been disabled.
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the new function below.
checks to see if contervar is less than the array length. then spins the text. then updates countervar++ THEN also checks to see if the new countervar = the arrays length. if this is true the button is disabled and additional presses will be prohibited.

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button_press = function (counter) {
arrayname = "myLetters"+counter;
countervar = "c"+counter;
// /trace(newline+"***");
// trace("arrayname= "+arrayname+newline+"countervar= "+countervar+newline+countervar+"= "+_root[countervar]);
if (_root[countervar]<_root[arrayname].length) {
trace("****");
trace("i think countervar is still less than the arrays length");
trace(arrayname+".length="+_root[arrayname].length);
trace("countervar= "+_root[countervar]);
trace("_root["+arrayname+"]["+_root[countervar]+"]="+_root[arrayname][_root[countervar]]);
_root.framtext.dynamicTxt = _root[arrayname][_root[countervar]];
_root[countervar]++;
trace("countervar has now been updated to ="+_root[countervar]+newline);
if (_root[countervar] == _root[arrayname].length) {
trace("i DO NOT think countervar is less than the arrays length");
_root["button"+counter].enabled = false;
_root["button"+counter]._alpha = 20;
}
}
};
[as]

hi al,
***edit***
didn't even see that mego beat me to it
better late than never...
late last night, megolomor sent a note to suggest the final fix; he would have fixed and sent it himself, but it was late - and he knew i was still awake...

here's the fixed code - (look for these comments: "recent change next line"; those are the changes that he suggested )

Code:

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button_press = function (counter) {
        arrayname = "myLetters"+counter;
        countervar = "c"+counter;
        // /trace(newline+"***");
        // trace("arrayname= "+arrayname+newline+"countervar= "+countervar+newline+countervar+"= "+_root[countervar]);

        //------ next line moved "up" from below---------recent change next line
        _root.framtext.dynamicTxt = _root[arrayname][_root[countervar]];

        //--------added " - 1 " in next line ------------recent change next line
        if (_root[countervar]<_root[arrayname].length - 1) {
                trace("****");
                trace("i think countervar is still less than the arrays length");
                trace(arrayname+".length="+_root[arrayname].length);
                trace("countervar= "+_root[countervar]);
                trace("_root["+arrayname+"]["+_root[countervar]+"]="+_root[arrayname][_root[countervar]]);
        //------ commented (//) dynamicTxt line to remove it ---recent change next line
        //------and moved it up above "if" statement--------recent change next line
                //_root.framtext.dynamicTxt = _root[arrayname][_root[countervar]];
                // trace(_root[arrayname][_root[countervar]]);
                _root[countervar]++;
                trace("countervar has now been updated to =" + _root[countervar]+newline)
        } else {
                trace("i DO NOT think countervar is less than the arrays length");
                _root["button"+counter].enabled = false;
                _root["button"+counter]._alpha = 20;
                trace("end 2");
        }
};

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thanks alot you all

very good. we missed you