Mrs. Bealls Game Show

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Mrs. Bealls Game Show

• Final Project for Intro to Hypermedia
• Taught by Dr. Jan Stelovsky Dana Behling

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Goals

• Learn Flash
• Flashs User Interface
• ActionScript
• Provide an easy to use testing environment for
  teachers.
• Provide students with a fun way to learn.

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Objectives

• Obtain Install Flash
• Learn to use Flash
• Using graphic design tools.
• Thinking of a program as a movie.
• Flash specific vernacular.
• Learn ActionScript for Flash
• Putting this together to make a working program.

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Functionality

• Multiple Choice Quiz
• Single Multiplayer Modes
• Randomized Ordering of
• Groups
• Questions
• Multiple Choice Answers
• Display associated image with question
• Keep track of scores, players questions

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User Interface Design

• Play The Game

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Software Design

• Players
• One array to keep track of players names
• Another to keep track of each players score.
• Questions
• An array of questions
• Each question consists of
• Text (The text of the actual wording of the
  question.)
• An array of possible answers
• A URL to an image

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Code Samples Answer Class

• /
• Question Class
• Author Dana Behling
• Version 1
• Modified December 11, 2005
• This creates a answers object. Where an answer
  has a value of
• either true for right answers or false for wronge
  answers.
• /
• class Answer
• private var _txtString
• private var _truthBoolean
• public function Question(p_txtString,
  p_truthBoolean)
• this._txt p_txt
• this._truth p_truth
• public function get txt()String
• return this._txt

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Code Samples XML to ActionScript

• Flash Provids Functions for Working with XMLs
• // Get the XML
• var my_xml new XML()
• my_xml.ignoreWhite true
• my_xml.onLoad function(success)
• if (success)
• // trace(this)
• my_xml.load(fileName)

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Code Samples Using XML Class

• var questionsArray new Array()
• for (var i 0 iltnumberOfQuestions i)
• // Create new question
• var qQuestion new Question()
• // Set text part of question
• q.txt arrayOfQuestionsi.firstChild
• // Sets the image name and file extention
• q.image arrayOfQuestionsi.childNodes1
• // Create an array of Answers
• var answersArray new Array()
• for (var j 0 jltarrayOfQuestionsi.childNodes
  .length-2 j)
• var aAnswer new Answer()
• a.txt arrayOfQuestionsi.childNodesj2
• a.truth arrayOfQuestionsi.childNodesj2.a
  ttributes.isCorrect
• answersj a
• answers.shuffle()
• q.answers answers
• questionsi q

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Thank you

• Take Questions
• Have a Merry Christmas