[RESOLVED] on XML load ... goes to last Item

[ADVaughn]

I have a quiz that loads questions, answers and a wrong answer response from an XML file.

Everything is working fine except when it loads the text for the "wrongresponse" variable it always loads the last item value regardless of the question. It skips right to the last Item element everytime.

[ADVaughn]

The AS above is on frame 1 maintimeline, I call the "wrongresponse" variable on frame 23 using;

wrongresponse=wrongresponse;

There is a dynamic text field on that frame that uses that variable

[Nig 13]

Mind posting the files?

[ADVaughn]

Hey buddy you have been a big help for me before. Hope you can help again.

I have made some headway since posting this. I can now get it to load the value for the "wrongresponse" element but on the first question it comes up undefined the remaining 9 questions it loads the "wrongresponse" element from the xml but is one behind. ie displays Question 5 wrong response when is hould be displaying the one for Question 6.

Thanks Guy

[ADVaughn]

here is the XML

[ADVaughn]

here is the xml

[Nig 13]

quizItems[i]=new QuizItem(questionNode.firstChild.nodeValue);

You are calling QuizItem function BEFORE updating wrongresponse with the value fetched from the XML file, hence the first node is 'undefined', and the second one is equals to the first one's wrong response.

To solve this, add a new parameter to QuizItem:

function QuizItem(question, wrong_response)

and then change, this.wrongresponse=wrongreponse; to this:

this.wrongresponse=wrong_response;

then find this line:

quizItems[i]=new QuizItem(questionNode.firstChild.nodeValue);

and change it to this:

quizItems[i]=new QuizItem(questionNode.firstChild.nodeValue, itemNode.childNodes[5].firstChild.nodeValue);

and lastly, just remove this line:

wrongresponse=itemNode.childNodes[5].firstChild.nodeValue;

[ADVaughn]

WORKS GREAT!!!! as always thank you so much, I owe you! and thanks for showing what I did wrong.

Adam

[ADVaughn]

I have one more question, how can I get the "userScore" value (or final total score in percent) to only show the 100th place? right now I am getting answers like 33.3333333 like for it to show 33.33

[Nig 13]

userScore = Math.floor(userScore*100)/100;

userScore*100 = 33.3333333*100 = 3333.33333
Math.floor(3333.33333) = 3333
3333/100 = 33.33

No problem

[ADVaughn]

I tried that and it doesn't work. tried Math.round as well.

I just noticed that the first thime you go through the quiz it returns bad results for questions answered correctly and questions answered and of course the Total or userScore. If you click play Adain button and go through again the results are good. fine. Must be another tiing issue

[ADVaughn]

updated FLA and actually probably best to remove all decimal places and round off as whole number. Hopefully I will have a cleared head in the morning and figure this out.

[Nig 13]

It's working just fine here, the rounding that is and also no problems with answering questions...

[ADVaughn]

I wish, if you run the quiz and answer A for every question at the end it returns 5 correct and 7 incorrect, it should be 4 and 6, also you will notice it returns 66.66% there are 10 questions and it should be 40%. The strange thing is if you hit Play again and answer all A again this time it gives the Right Correct and incorrect answer count. But still retuns 66.66%.

Thanks for the reply and interest. I am an artist if you ever need a logo or something hit me up.

Adam

[Nig 13]

Maybe because in Frame 21 you have this:

numOfQuestionsAnsweredCorrectly++;

and in Frame 23, this:

numOfQuestionsAnsweredIncorrectly++;

which increases the incorrect and correct answer text by one (4 and 6 => 5 and 7). From what I see, you haven't made this yourself but have downloaded a template, or? If that's the case, I strongly advice you to create your own from scratch and you'll definitely have a better understanding of the coding, because the coding right now is really messy...

[ADVaughn]

actually it was something I made it a long time ago MX I think and am trying to make some changes for a friend of mine. Most of the time I am the guy creating the assets.

Without those values are not saved,

[Nig 13]

Aha, sorry about that

If I look at my coding after a while after coding it, I'll have no idea what I had done and would have a hard time understanding it, as if reading someone else's code, and if you made a long time ago, then you've definitely forgotten the understanding, so I still advice you to write a new code, as it's relatively easy and fun

[ADVaughn]

took your advise and slowly rebuilt..... working fine now. Thanks again for all your help.

[Nig 13]

Nice