Wife in coma

[cyberview]

Hi can anybody help...

When somebody is in a coma theres a scale called 'The Glasgow Coma Scale'
http://www.sfar.org/scores2/glasgow2.html

I'm trying to build a small application that has 3 separate selection fields which gives a score all 3 must be used (default therefore would be 1 per column) ... the end score gives a result in figures... the score gives a text result.
ie.
3 column's a b c
a 1st column has selectable scores of 1,2,3,4
b 2nd column has selectable scores of 1,2,3,4,5
c 1st column has selectable scores of 1,2,3,4,5,6

a selected 2 + b selected 4 + c selected 5 score = 11 = shows corresponding text result for 11 etc

there will be text results for scores 3 through to 15

thanking you in anticipation...

Gary
Manchester UK

[a_modified_dog]

using radio buttons as displayed in your link ?
here's some code to get you going in Flash 8.

drag a RadioButton component into your Library.
add main timeline code to attach radio buttons to stage.
each loop assigns placement and groupNames,
label and scale are indexed from each columns array.
each group uses a listener to send its scale value to a function
that shows the variable total in the output window.
display this variable in your textfield and use it to select your text output.

//column1///////////
col1 = ["Spontaneously (4)","To speech (3)","To pain (2)","None (1)"];

for(var n=0;n!=col1.length;n++){
refCol1 = this.attachMovie("RadioButton","col1_"+n,n+100,
{_x:25,_y:25*n+30,_width:200,groupName:"col_1",label:col1[n]});
refCol1.sca = col1[n].charAt(col1[n].length-2);
}

var column1:Object = new Object(); 
column1.click = function(evt1:Object){
c1 = col_1.selection.sca;
scale(c1,c2,c3);
};  col_1.addEventListener("click", column1); 

//column2///////////
col2 = ["Orientated (5)","Confused (4)","Inappropriate words (3)","Incomprehensible sounds (2)","None (1)"];

for(var n=0;n!=col2.length;n++){
refCol2 = this.attachMovie("RadioButton","col2_"+n,n+200,
{_x:160,_y:25*n+30,_width:200,groupName:"col_2",label:col2[n]});
refCol2.sca = col2[n].charAt(col2[n].length-2);
}

var column2:Object = new Object(); 
column2.click = function(evt2:Object){
c2 = col_2.selection.sca;
scale(c1,c2,c3);
};  col_2.addEventListener("click", column2);
 
//column3///////////
col3 = ["Obeys commands (6)","Localizes pain (5)","Withdraws to pain (4)","Flexion (abnormal) to pain (3)","Extension to pain (2)","None (1)"];

for(var n=0;n!=col3.length;n++){
refCol3 = this.attachMovie("RadioButton","col3_"+n,n+300,
{_x:360,_y:25*n+30,_width:200,groupName:"col_3",label:col3[n]});
refCol3.sca = col3[n].charAt(col3[n].length-2);
}

var column3:Object = new Object(); 
column3.click = function(evt3:Object){
c3 = col_3.selection.sca;
scale(c1,c2,c3);
};  col_3.addEventListener("click", column3); 
//total/////////////

function scale(c1,c2,c3){
!c1 ? c1=0 : c1;  !c2 ? c2=0 : c2;  !c3 ? c3=0 : c3;
total = parseInt(c1)+parseInt(c2)+parseInt(c3);
trace("Glasgow coma scale = "+total);
}; 

hope this helps you on your way

[cyberview]

wow...
I really cant judge but I'm very appreciative of your response, unfortunately my level of knowledge is way below your supplied help...
I do however thank you very sincerely for the obvious time spent on my behalf
many thanks.

regards
Gary
Manchester
UK