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Evening all,

I am currently making a quiz and one of the types of answers is a 'put the below items in the correct sequence'. I.e:

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"Please put the following in order to make a sentence"
Rainy
Its
Day
A

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Its
A
Rainy
Day

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I have tried with 5 frames, each can accept objects. I then have five labels that can be dragged. These will initially sit in their corresponding frames, but I wish to mix them up so they are in a random wrong order. How would I go about programming/opusly changing the frame they are dropped in?

Also, I need to be able to drag one label over another label and the two will swap positions. Is that possible?

And finally, I need to be able to get something back that will let me know what order those items are in? For example, when dropping an object into a frame, how can I determine which frame it is?

Look forward to hearing back from you,

Regards,
Dan

Red,

I think what you've outlined might be 'doable', but there may not be just one, easy path to achieving it.

In OpusScript you can use objectA.GetXPosition() etc., etc., -- to record the starting location of the object to be dragged. You'll use that later to Move objectB back to objectA's original position.

Once you detect an object dropped, you can run through your game logic. Then Move or SetPosition of object you want to swap out of the dropzone frame. I think this is not a trivial task to generalize.

For 'randomizing' you could use Arrays. They are pretty easy to manipulate since their elements are referred to by their index number.

if you did not mind 'simplifying' the approach, you could have your five text objects in the 'wrong order'... and let the user manually drag those out to another larger dropzone that could be used as a whitespace. Then the user drags a text phrase back to one of the five dropzone frames that are open. Then you simply have to monitor correct configurations. (see next reply)

Some ideas for streamlining phrase and sentence setup.

Look up Arrays, and also the split() command. (search forum for 'split').

"some ideas * for streamlining * phrase and * sentence setup"
If you entered that string into a variable, then the split operation can load an Array for the 4 phrases (using separator above).

You could randomize the initial display 'order'.
For example arrayphrase[3] arrayphrase[2] arrayphrase[0] arrayphrase[1]

( you could have regular variables, e.g. textA, textB, textC... etc be displayed in the textobjects that are dragged/dropped. You just set Array elements to match up in 'not correct' order)

and the correct order will always be ... [0] [1] [2] [3]

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I would think that approach could scale easily to larger sentences.

Good luck.

Hi Dan,

The process is quite straightforward but to code this is a little more complex.

Basically, get the position of the object on mouse-down. On mouse-release (click) check if the object is intersecting with an other object in your list. Get the positions of both these objects and swap them around. Add to this the need to track where they are in the list - you'd need to either use OOP or variables.

To randomise the positions at the start, simply get the positions of each object and read this into an array and then use an array shuffle function - there are some already posted. Then set the new positions with a move speed of zero as the page shows.

The outcome is a very professional quiz style question. See our IKIQ exemplar for an illustration of how this would look using a vertical arrangement system.

http://www.interaktiv.co.uk/index.php?o ... Itemid=151

Regards,

Mack

Hi, I used the IsObjectIntersecting method as you suggested. Worked brilliantly. Basically I had 5 buttons going down vertically, one after the other. Each of those buttons had a variable I.e. QUIZ_ANSWER_1, QUIZ_ANSWER_2... QUIZ_ANSWER_5.

When I dropped the item I checked which button it was intersecting (if any) and then did a simple bit of code to swap the variable content around.

I.e. I dropped Button 1 on Button2, I'd copy Button 2's variable into a temp variable, assign Button 1's variable to 2 and then assign the temp variable content back to Button 1's variable.

Very simple really!

Thanks for the help.

Hi,

redstork can you be more specific with the code that you used and help me?
Because I'm having problems in put what you said in practice.

Regards.

I didn't understand this part, can you clarify me? I have something like this:

... And?

I should make this in each object? And is something like above or not really. I need to solve this problem as soon as possible, if someone can helps.

Thanks.

Pedro,
You probably will not get a response from the original poster (at least not quickly), since that was back in 2009.

Also, is it correct to say forum readers can skip over your request in this thread, and pick up the help/discussion over in your separate Post? Clarifying this so we can all stay on the same page so to speak.
viewtopic.php?f=6&t=5025

Just because I didn't want to create another topic for the same discuss.
However I will write it in other page.

Thanks.