Update Dynamic text based on the score in Animate Multiple choice quiz

[Robb Nemo]

Hi, I'm an animate novice, playing around with a html5 Multiple Choice quiz. It all works well, but I'd like to change the message displayed on the final score page dependent on the value of the total score achieved - so if  the total score is 0/3 a message something like "oops- total fail" appears. If the total score is 1/3 then a different message is displayed, and different messages again for each of 2/3 & 3/3. I'm sure it's a really simple thing to do, but any help would be greatly appreciated 

I have a dynamic textbox called "scorecomment" ready for the message, with the following code for the scoring:

var totalscore=3;
var thecoun=0;

this.totalscore.text=totalscore;
function scoreIt(){
thecount=thecount=1;
}

[Robb Nemo]

oops, I made a typo in the code and missed a "t" off ... it should be :

var thecount=0;

[JoãoCésar]

Hi.

You can use a switch statement or an if-else chain. Like this:

Switch statement:

var currentScore = 0; // set other values here

switch(currentScore)
{
	case 0:
		this.scorecomment.text = "You scored 0.";
		break;
	case 1:
		this.scorecomment.text = "You scored 1.";
		break;
	case 2:
		this.scorecomment.text = "You scored 2.";
		break;
	case 3:
		this.scorecomment.text = "You scored 3.";
		break;
}

Else-if chain:

var currentScore = 0; // set other values here

if (currentScore === 0)
{
	this.scorecomment.text = "You scored 0.";
}
else if (currentScore === 1)
{
	this.scorecomment.text = "You scored 1.";
}
else if (currentScore === 2)
{
	this.scorecomment.text = "You scored 2.";
}
else if (currentScore === 3)
{
	this.scorecomment.text = "You scored 3.";
}

I hope this helps.

Regards,

JC

[Robb Nemo]

Thank you JC for the response, it's very much appreciated

Just a quick question though.... what do I write to set the other values? At the moment I only get "you scored 0" regardless of the score. 

As I say, I'm very much the novice in these things! 🙂

[kglad]

replace the quotes ("you scored x") with the text you want displayed

[JoãoCésar]

Hi, Robb.

The variable you use to keep track of the score shouldn't be redeclared when it's the time to show the message.

In my example, I declared currentScore immediately before checking for the values, but in your case you shouldn't do it.

If that makes sense.

[Robb Nemo]

Hi JC,

Sorry for thdelay in responding - and thanks again for all of your help.

I'm afraid I'm being really thick here because I can't get my head around what I need to put and I'm tying myself up in knots!!

I've just realised that the "scorecomment" text should change depenent on the value shown in another dynamic text field called "finalscore" - which itself is fed from another dynamic text field called "currentscore" (this.finalscore.text=thiscurrentscore.text;) which derives it's value from "thecount" (this.currentscore.text=thecount;) etc...

I hope that makes some sense!

Again, appreciative of any help that you can throw in my direction.

[kglad]

this.finalscore.addEventListener(Event.CHANGE,changeF);

function changeF(e:Event):void{

switch(this.finalscore.text)
{
case 0:
this.scorecomment.text = "You scored 0.";
break;
case 1:
this.scorecomment.text = "You scored 1.";
break;
case 2:
this.scorecomment.text = "You scored 2.";
break;
case 3:
this.scorecomment.text = "You scored 3.";
break;
}

}

[Robb Nemo]

Hi kglad, thank you for your help with this -  I've just tried adding your code but, when I test the movie it gets stuck at the spinning pre-loader and fails top open. I know I'm missing something really basic here! 

[kglad]

my error.  i see this is an html5 project and i used as3 code.

what user action is triggering the various dynamic textfields to change values?

[Robb Nemo]

Hi kglad,

no worries - it's a simple multiple choice quiz.

and exapmple question is:

var totalscore=3;
var thecount=0;

this.correctanswer1.ans1.text="Yellow";
this.wronganswer1.ans2.text="Pink";
this.wronganswer2.ans2.text="Blue";
this.wronganswer3.ans2.text="Purple";

this.totalscore.text=totalscore; 
function scoreIt(){
	thecount=thecount+1;
}


this.correctanswer1.addEventListener("click", fl_MouseClickHandler.bind(this));

function fl_MouseClickHandler()
{
	this.correctanswer1.play();
	this.wronganswer1.mouseEnabled=false;
	this.wronganswer2.mouseEnabled=false;
	this.wronganswer3.mouseEnabled=false;
	scoreIt();
	this.currentscore.text=thecount;
}


this.wronganswer1.addEventListener("click", fl_MouseClickHandler_2.bind(this));

function fl_MouseClickHandler_2()
{
	this.wronganswer2.mouseEnabled=false;
	this.wronganswer1.play();
	this.correctanswer1.mouseEnabled=false;
	this.wronganswer3.mouseEnabled=false;
	
}

etc.

and to get the finalscore it uses this:

this.finalscore.text=this.currentscore.text;

I need the final score to different different phrases in the "scorecomment" dynamic text box to read something like "bad luck, you failed this time" for a score of zero, right up to a score of 3 which would display something like "Well done, you maxed it!" etc.

I hope there's enough info there

[Robb Nemo]

The "scorecomment" is fed by the result in the dynamic text box "finalscore"

"totalscore" and "currentscore" are both dynamic text boxes

[kglad]

function scoreIt(){
	thecount=thecount+1;
changeF(thecount);
}

function changeF(score){

switch(score)
{
case 0:
this.scorecomment.text = "You scored 0.";
break;
case 1:
this.scorecomment.text = "You scored 1.";
break;
case 2:
this.scorecomment.text = "You scored 2.";
break;
case 3:
this.scorecomment.text = "You scored 3.";
break;
}

}