Help with Actionscript text input

[MetaSketch]

I want to create a math problem that the user inputs the data to be computed.

example:

220 - textinput = answer

I just started with scripting. I know Lingo fairly well and now trying to learn actionscripting.

Thanks

[stork1515]

I think you would go about it like this.

Have an input text box named "textInput" . Then you can store the answer in a variable:

var answer = 220 - _root.textInput
//_root is wherever you have placed your text box, in this case its the main timeline.

dan

[swampy]

name the input text box "textinput" in the "text options" pallette. draw a dynamic text box and name it "answer"
and add this script to a button:

on (release) {

answer= 220 -textinput;

}

[MetaSketch]

Thanks

I'm working with now.

Is it possible not to have a button to generate the answer, rather as the user types in the "textinput" field. I want the answer to display automatically.

[swampy]

yes, if you make the movie two frames long and add this code in the first frame of the main timeline

answer= 220 -textinput

the movie will constantly loop through the script as it loops through the frames

[MetaSketch]

Ok, not sure whats happening.


Ok, here's what I got so far.

frame 1:
the user see's on screen

220 - "textinput" = answer

textinput & answer are invisible until something is typed in the "textinput" field.

However, when i used the code:
220 - textinput = answer; "220" is displayed where the answer should be. The real answer should be "185"

Sorry for my inability to understand this. In Director, I declare my varibles first, as in:

set varible textinput, answer

then write out the expression

220 - textinput = answer

Are their any simalarities with Lingo and Actionscripting?

[swampy]

get shot of the quotation marks around the variable name otherwise flash interprets it as a string literal.

write your code in this order:

answer= 220 -textinput
because the answer equals 220 minus whatever textinput is