ActionScript for Flash MX: The Definitive Guide, Second Edition

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Testing Our Quiz

Well, that’s it. Our quiz is finished. You can check whether the quiz works by using

Control

➝ Test Movie. Click on the answers in different combinations to see if your

quiz is keeping score correctly. You can even create a restart button that is available

throughout the quiz by making a button instance named

restart_btn (placed on its

own layer, on frame 1 of the main timeline), and adding the following code to frame

1 of the scripts layer:

restart_btn.onRelease = function ( ) {

this._parent.totalOutput_txt.removeTextField( );

this._parent.gotoAndStop("init");

}

Because totalCorrect is set to 0 in the code on the init frame, the score will reset

itself each time you send the playhead to

init.

If you find that your quiz isn’t working, try comparing it with the sample quiz pro-

vided at the online Code Depot.

Onward!

So how does it feel? You’ve learned a bunch of phrases, some grammar, some vocab-

ulary, and even had a drawn-out conversation with Flash (the multiple-choice quiz).

Quite a rich first day of language school, I’d say.

As you can see, there’s a lot to learn about ActionScript, but you can also do quite a

bit with just a little knowledge. Even the amount you know now will give you plenty

to play around with. Throughout the rest of this book, we’ll reinforce ...