Help Needed for Beginner

Brilliant this has worked thank you Gorka Ludlow :)

Only one more quesiont....how would i get the input text field to clear after each attempt? at the moment it stays there



stop();

var error_count:Number=0;
_root.submit_micrometer_btn.onRelease=function() {
if (_root.micrometer_answer_txt.text=="9.18") {
_root.unloadMovie();
} else {_root.response.text="Incorrect Answer Please Try Again"
error_count++;
if(error_count==3){
_root.loadMovie("introduction.swf");
}
}
};

Well, how would you do it if you had to sit there and watch and count? The same would be for Flash.

You know that eveybody starts with zero tries, so:

numAttempts=0;

Then everytime they try and answer they have attempted it one more time. So inside the onRelease function.

numAttempts++;

If it is right you don't care so inside the first part of the if you don't need anything. But if they didn't get it right then you need to check how many times. So put something inside the else statement:

if(numAttempts>=maxTries){
trace("You've tried too many times. Let me help you.")
} else {
trace("Incorrect answer, please try again.");
}

Oh, I didn't mention maxTries. Generally I find that things like this get changed at the last minute, so it is easier to define a maxTries variable up at the top. Otherwise you end up going blind looking through all those lines of code.

how about this:

stop();

var error_count:Number=0;
_root.submit_micrometer_btn.onRelease=function() {
if (_root.micrometer_answer_txt.text=="9.18") {
_root.unloadMovie();
} else {_root.response.text="Incorrect Answer Please Try Again"
error_count++;
if(error_count==3){
_root.loadMovie('external_swf.swf',0);
}
}
};

Cheers
Gorka

yes if possible i have no idea how to get the whole thing working and its driving me mad (along with the rest of it as well!)

when you load your external swf do you want to unload the measurement swf?