help.i am in deep trouble with my boss???

[jellobiafra webforumsuser@macromedia.com]

i can't figure anything.it doesn't work.
i want to create a script that makes a field box understands a drag&drop text action when it is dropped there and put result on screen wrong or write.i mean take a word ,put it in a field box or text box and check if it is the wright one results correct otherwise wrong.
any idea ? whould be helpful.
thanks in advance...


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[Thyrecktorr webforumsuser@macromedia.com]

I have a solution for you, but it is another way to achieve the same.
First things first, create 3 answers. Let's say "One", "Two", and "Three". These are text members and you have to make them dragable.

Well then, now we are going to create 3 "boxes". These Boxes need to be the same width and height as their correct answers. The boxes you can create to draw a rectangle with director. Set the 3 boxes invisible. On the first frame you can put a script were you set the boxes visibility to 0.
I.E: We have the answers in the first 3 sprites.
Then at sprites 4,5,6 we have the answer boxes
In the script line you put the script:
on exitframe me
sprite(4).visible = 0
sprite(5).visible = 0
sprite(6).visible = 0
end

Okay, let's move on.
Let's take the first answer: "one"
What you are going to do is let director check if the co-ordinates of the answer are the same with the co-ordinates of the answer box.
On the answer you put the following script:

property pStartH, pStartV, pTargetH, pTargetV, goodVal
on mouseUp me
set pTargetH = 439 (This is the horizontal coordinate of the INVISIBLE ANSWER BOX)
set pTargetV = 99 (This is the vertical coordinate of the INVISIBLE ANSWER BOX)
set goodVal = 0

if sprite(1).locH > (pTargetH) and sprite(7).locH <(pTargetH + 9)
then
set goodVal = goodVal + 1
end if
if sprite(1).locV > (pTargetV) and sprite(7).locV < (pTargetV + 7)
then
set goodVal = goodVal + 1
end if

if goodVal = 2 then
sprite(8).member = member("answercorrect")
else
sprite(8).member = member("answerfalse")
end if
end

What we see is that this script checks the coordinate of sprite 1 (the answer) and checks if it is in its proper place (the coordinates of target). When the dragged answer is in it's proper place then the sprite 8 (you have to create this one!!) will change in another member, answercorrect. Is it isn't in it's proper place then sprite 8 will change to answerfalse. This last 3 members can all be text members, so you can test if it works.So the large script is important. You'll need to put that on every answer, and make sure you measure the good coordinates of the answerboxes. (For lay-out you can make boxes, lines etc at other sprites, just to make it look better) If you need any help you can leave your mail adres, then i will help you further! good luck!

[Rob Dillon]

Well... you can't drag text into a text or field sprite, so how are you
trying to accomplish this? Are you attempting to drag another text or
field sprite over another? Are you attempting to drag a bitmap of text?

If you're dragging one text or field sprite over another, you can
compare the contents of the members of those sprites:

if sprite(X).member.text = sprite(Y).member.text then...

or

if sprite(X).member.word[1] = sprite(Y).member.word[1] then...

or

if sprite(Y).member.text contains sprite(X).member.text then...

if you are trying to compare dissimilar media then you'll have to cme
up with a way to hold some common value to compare across the two.

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[Eelco Heuvelmans webforumsuser@macromedia.com]

I'm letting Director read the list and make sprites of the props, but when I do that, Director puts them in the order where the last prop is the first in the sprite row... (its like a menubar) but I want to write a script so that a user can edit the location where the sprite is put.

thats why

[rick@mcorp webforumsuser@macromedia.com]

ok so now we know ;)

try using a list within a list like this :


thelist = [#A123: [#pos: 1, #name:"number1"], #A456: [#pos: 2, #name: "number2"], #A789: [#pos:3, #name: "number3"]]

then you can use the #pos property to keep track of where each sprite is and refer to it as follows :

pos = thelist.a123.pos

if you want to change the sprite's position then you don't actually have to move the values around instead you can simply set the #pos value to the new position like this :

thelist.a123.setaprop(#pos,4)

and then to see it's new position use :

pos = thelist.a123.pos



That's why you should never have to move the contents of a property list around !

good luck.

[jellobiafra webforumsuser@macromedia.com]

thanks Thyrecktorr and rob for your help.
i 'll try now and see if it works.
my mail is [email]priopas@yahoo.com[/email] how can i communicate with you Thyrecktorr for further support?
[email]priopas@yahoo.com[/email]

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