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donalall
Inspiring
June 5, 2015
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Advanced Actions for Matchstick Puzzle (CP8)

  • June 5, 2015
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Hi,

I’m creating a matchstick puzzle where you click to remove matches (images of matches).

The order is not important.

When user clicks matchstick image – the image is hidden and an outline of the image is displayed.

If user clicks the outline the matchstick image is displayed.

I have a counter “Matches removed” that displays the number of matchstick images that have been removed.

And a variable “Matchstick_visible” that indicates if the matchstick image is visible or not.

There is a “Submit” button onscreen to validate the puzzle.

Everything works fine but now I want to only allow user to remove a certain number of matches e.g. 4.

When the user tries to remove a 5th match a message will pop up telling them they have to replace a match before they can remove another match.

I don’t know how to add this functionality to the AA below.

Captivate 8.0.1.242, Non-Responsive, No scoring, No LMS, Windows.

AA for each match:

Decision 1 - Visible:

IF “Matchstick_visible” = 1

    Hide matchstick image

    Show matchstick outline image

    Increment “matches removed” counter by 1

Decision 2 - Invisible:

IF Matchstick_visible = 0

    Show matchstick image

    Hide matchstick outline image

    Decrement “matches removed” counter by 1

Decision 3 - Toggle:

IF 1 = 1

  Toggle Matchstick_visible

Regards

Donal.

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Correct answer Lilybiri

Hi Lieve, Yes i had planned to use a seperate variable for each match, just wanted help with the AA logic. My AA is complicated because i wanted the user to be able to replace a match even when six matches are removed, and not just display a message after 6 matches were removed. I look forward to reading your solution and learning from it. Re: your last comment - I don't have much AA experience and am totally new to shared actions. Thanks Donal.


I allow to manually reset a matchstick one by one, or to reset everything. And if the user cheats and removes a 7th matchstick, everything will be reset automatically.

Creating such a game is not that hard (for me), but having to write out all the explanations takes a lot more time.

It is published, you can have a look at: Matchstick Game - shared actions - Captivate blog

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Lilybiri
Lilybiri
Legend
June 5, 2015

Hello,

Would like to help, but I don't know that game. Could you post some screenshots to explain?

As far as I understand it now, I would combine the first two decisions in one decision, since they are just the opposite of each other. Moreover I suspect that the toggle command which you put at this moment in a separate mimicked standard action (your third decision) can be included in that first decision. The second decision could then check the value of 'matches_removed' variable and show the message. But I don't know what has to happen more when already 4 matches have been removed?

Moreover I would recommend using shared actions, since you use this action over and over again. Which event do you use to trigger the action: click box over both images, or shape buttons with the images?

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donalallAuthor
Inspiring
June 5, 2015

Hi Lieve,

Here is the matchstick puzzle i am trying to do - remove 6 matchsticks to make 10.

I had not thought of showing the message when they removed the 6th matchstick (as per example in image above). That is possible.

But i think a more complete solution would be to show the message when they click the 7th match, because this allows them to replace the 6th match

without getting the message.

FYI: Nothing happens when 6 matches are removed but I want an error message displayed when the user clicks a 7th match.

I could include a new decision at the start

IF “matches removed” = 6  

   Show message

   Show click box (to remove msesage)

I'm just not sure how you deal with the visibility, match count, and toggle?

i.e. don't allow removing a 7th match but do allow the replacing of the 6th match.

I am using a click box over the two images.

I plan to use shared actions once i get my scaled down model working (i.e. just using 3 matches instead of 15 at the moment)

Regards

Donal.

Lilybiri
LilybiriCorrect answer
Legend
June 5, 2015

Hi Lieve, Yes i had planned to use a seperate variable for each match, just wanted help with the AA logic. My AA is complicated because i wanted the user to be able to replace a match even when six matches are removed, and not just display a message after 6 matches were removed. I look forward to reading your solution and learning from it. Re: your last comment - I don't have much AA experience and am totally new to shared actions. Thanks Donal.


I allow to manually reset a matchstick one by one, or to reset everything. And if the user cheats and removes a 7th matchstick, everything will be reset automatically.

Creating such a game is not that hard (for me), but having to write out all the explanations takes a lot more time.

It is published, you can have a look at: Matchstick Game - shared actions - Captivate blog

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