ActionScript for Flash MX: The Definitive Guide, Second Edition

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Chapter 1: A Gentle Introduction for Nonprogrammers

Building the Quiz End

Our quiz is nearly complete. We have two questions and an answer-tracking script

that lets the user answer the questions and progress through the quiz. We still need a

quiz-ending screen where we score the quiz and tell the user how well he fared.

To build our quiz-end screen, we need to do some basic Flash production and some

scripting. Let’s do the production first:

1. At frame 20 of the question 2 layer, add a blank keyframe. This prevents Ques-

tion 2 from appearing behind the contents of our quiz-end screen.

2. At frame 20 of the choice buttons layer, add a blank keyframe. This prevents our

buttons from appearing behind the contents of our quiz-end screen.

3. At frame 20 of the quiz end layer, add a blank keyframe.

4. While you’re still on that frame, put the following text on the Stage: “Thank you

for taking the quiz.” Make sure to leave some space below for the user’s score.

5. At frame 20 of the scripts layer, add a blank keyframe.

That takes care of the production work for our quiz-end screen. Your end screen

should look something like the one shown in Figure 1-9.

Now let’s work on the quiz-end script. When the playhead lands on our

quizEnd

frame, we want to calculate the user’s score. We need a calculation ...