CP9 Increment at TEB value on Submit.

[Gray Susan]

I'm building a game and I've put two text entry boxes on the slide.  One for each team.  I've changed the Submit button to read Team 1 and Team 2 for each box.  When a team makes a correct answer the moderator will click the teams box and the TEB should go from blank to 10 then a second correct answer 20, etc.  I've put in the action for each teams TEB to increment by 10  but nothing happens when I preview it.  Do I need to do an advanced action instead?

Thank you,

Susan

[Lilybiri]

Did you use the Success action of the TEB to increment a user variable, that has to be different from the associated variable. How do you set up the Success action?

Once I created a gaming scoreboard, but would do it much differently when working with the enhanced features of later versions.

Creating a Game Results Board with Captivate 5 - Captivate blog

[Gray Susan]

Yes that is what I tried that every time a teams button was clicked by the moderator it would increment the teams score by 10.  Thanks for your example but I'm having a hard time following it.  But then I'm not good at advanced actions.

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Subject: CP9 Increment at TEB value on Submit.

CP9 Increment at TEB value on Submit.

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[Lilybiri]

That example was much more complicated. I created it for another user at that time. It would be easier now in the present version.

I don't understand the link between the TEB's and the team submit buttons? Are the teams entering their answers in the TEB's?

[Gray Susan]

My plan was for the moderator to control the screen and when a team answered if it was on the list the moderator would click that option to reveal it.  I'm using smart shapes and having a second state that shows the answer.  Each correct answer would just be worth 10 points.  So after the correct answer was revealed the moderator would click that teams button to add 10 pts to their score.  If they missed then one of the X boxes on the bottom for their side would be clicked and turn red (the second state for the X).  I'm hoping to add a sound when that happens.  Then after three red X the other team would take over.

Something that your example showed me was that I need a way for the totals from one question move to the next slide and continue to add points.

So my issue is getting the TEB to increment 10 each time their button is clicked or should I just use Text captions with a Team Name and a variable to hold the points.  Something like Team 1- v_TM1_Score.  Then a way for the points to keep adding as slides are added to the project.

I've attached a picture of how the screen would appear.

There are 10 possible answers in the Smart Shapes with click boxes to reveal.  Then the X box Smart Shapes with click boxes to change colors for misses that turn red with clicked.  Then the TEBs for each team that would hopefully hold their scores.

Thank you for your patience and help.

Susan

[Lilybiri]

You cannot control what is showing in a Text Entry Box at all: it is just meant to have a text entered by a user, and that answer will be stored in the associated variable to the TEB. Although you can change the value of that variable with a (advanced/shared) action it will not show up in the TEB at all!

Create a text container (caption or shape) and insert the score variable in that container. That is the way to show the score. Use the X variable in the Character part of the text container to insert the score variables v_scoreTeam1 or v_scoreTeam2. You could even change the state of the text container, to make the 'active' team clearly visible.

[Gray Susan]

Ok I need to move to Belgium and have you force feed this variables and advanced action stuff to me.

I put in text captions with click boxes over them and had the action be to increment the variable in the text caption by 10.  Now when I click the box I get 10 then when I click again I get 1010 and so forth.  LOL

[Lilybiri]

You get concatenation! OK here is the workaround: when defining the score variables, set their default value to 0. That way CP will recognize that it is a number, and probably will add numbers.

BTW I train and teach more online than F2F (which I largely prefer but Belgium is a Captivate desert).

Another tip: instead of the combination click box + text caption, use a shape button: it can be both a text container (to insert the variable) and an interactive object. You know that I'm a shape button fan.