I believe you can use "\n" in your feedback string and it makes a new line.
On Wed, May 19, 2010 at 10:56 AM, Paul Jinks <p...@pauljinks.co.uk> wrote:
> It's been a long time since I've done any coding. I think this is
> pretty straightforward but it has me beat. Can you help?
>
> I'm working on a quiz using AS1 (I think) that reads questions and
> answers from an xml file. (see below for the script).
>
> I'd like to introduce line breaks into the feedback, how do I do this?
> I've tried using \r but it just displays this as text.
>
> Ideally I'd like to display the text as html but so far my efforts to
> do this have broken the script - any pointers?
>
> Here's the action script for the quiz. I hope it makes sense:
>
> function QuizItem(question)
> {
> this.question=question;
> this.answers=new Array();
> this.feedbacks=new Array();
> this.numOfAnswers=0;
> this.correctAnswer=0;
> this.getQuestion=function()
> {
> return this.question;
> }
> this.addAnswer=function(answer, isCorrectAnswer, feedback)
> {
> this.answers[this.numOfAnswers]=answer;
> this.feedbacks[this.numOfAnswers]=feedback;
> if (isCorrectAnswer)
> this.correctAnswer=this.numOfAnswers;
> this.numOfAnswers++;
> }
>
> this.getAnswer=function(answerNumberToGet)
> {
> return this.answers[answerNumberToGet];
> }
> this.getFeedback=function(answerNumberToGet)
> {
> return this.feedbacks[answerNumberToGet];
> }
>
> this.getCorrectAnswerNumber=function()
> {
> return this.correctAnswer;
> }
>
> this.checkAnswerNumber=function(userAnswerNumber)
> {
> if (userAnswerNumber==this.getCorrectAnswerNumber()) {
> numOfQuestionsAnsweredCorrectly++;
> } else {
> numOfQuestionsAnsweredIncorrectly++;
> }
> feedback = _root["feedback"+parseInt((userAnswerNumber+1))]
> gotoAndPlay("Feedback");
> }
> }
>
> function onQuizData(success)
> {
> var quizNode=this.firstChild;
> var quizTitleNode=quizNode.firstChild;
> title=quizTitleNode.firstChild.nodeValue;
>
> var i=0;
> // <items> follows <title>
> var itemsNode=quizNode.childNodes[1];
> while (itemsNode.childNodes[i])
> {
> var itemNode=itemsNode.childNodes[i];
> // <item> consists of <question> and one or more <answer>
> // <question> always comes before <answer>s (node 0 of <item>)
> var questionNode=itemNode.childNodes[0];
> quizItems[i]=new QuizItem(questionNode.firstChild.nodeValue);
> var a=1;
> // <answer> follows <question>
> var answerNode=itemNode.childNodes[a++];
> while (answerNode)
> {
> //trace(answerNode);
> var isCorrectAnswer=false;
> if (answerNode.attributes.correct=="y")
> isCorrectAnswer=true;
> //get answer
> tempAnswer = answerNode.firstChild.nodeValue;
> //go to next node
> answerNode=itemNode.childNodes[a++];
> //get feedback
> tempFeedback = answerNode.firstChild.nodeValue;
> //add answer and feedback to current answer/feedback
> 'pair'
> quizItems[i].addAnswer(tempAnswer, isCorrectAnswer,
> tempFeedback);
> // goto the next <answer>
> answerNode=itemNode.childNodes[a++];
> }
> i++;
> }
> gotoAndStop("Start");
> }
>
> var quizItems=new Array();
> var myData=new XML();
> myData.ignoreWhite=true;
> myData.onLoad=onQuizData;
> myData.load("google_quiz.xml");
> stop();
>
> And this is what the xml file looks like:
>
> <!DOCTYPE quiz [
> <!ELEMENT quiz (title, items)>
> <!ELEMENT title (#PCDATA)>
> <!ELEMENT items (item)+>
> <!ELEMENT item (question, answer, answer+)>
> <!ELEMENT question (#PCDATA)>
> <!ELEMENT answer (#PCDATA)>
> <!ELEMENT feedback (#PCDATA)>
> <!ATTLIST answer correct (y) #IMPLIED>
> ]>
> <quiz>
> <title>My quiz</title>
> <items>
> <item>
> <question>What colour are greenfly</question>
> <answer>Red</answer>
> <feedback>You chose answer [a]. This is incorrect. The correct
> answer is [d].</feedback>
> <answer>Blue</answer>
> <feedback>You chose answer [b]. This is incorrect. The correct
> answer is [d].</feedback>
> <answer>Cheese</answer>
> <feedback>Sorry, cheese is not a colour.</feedback>
> <answer correct="y">Green</answer>
> <feedback>Correct!</feedback>
> </item>
> </quiz>
>
> Thanks for reading, any help would be very gratefully received.
>
> Paul
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