On Jan 29, 2011, at 9:28 PM, John Patten wrote:
Thanks for looking into this with me! The way you (Jim) appear to
take what I did and turn it around in a fraction of the lines is
amazing! Someday I want to be able to do that :-)
Jacqueline is correct. The fields make up a mixed up paragraph. I
have it working where it lines up the mixed up fields nicely across
and down the window. The user is to put the fields back in order. If
one of the fields is a pixel lower on a line, or when the user has
to start another line of fields below the first, there is a problem.
I like your idea Jacqueline about the drop down fields but I'm
afraid not being able to see all parts of the paragraph will make it
too challenging at a beginning level.
I thought I could make each row of fields on the window a separate
group. This could be done when the stack creates the fields for each
line. However, that would mean that I would only have mixed up
content for each line going across, and I couldn't make the user
drag fields between lines. I want more mixed up flexibility...
Maybe I could have the fields snap to alignment some how when the
user checks their answer and before the sort...but that still would
not eliminate the issue with the subsequent lines of fields and
their order over all...
LiveCode doesn't do character recognition does it (OCR)? I could do
a screen capture, covert the pict to text and then check its
content ;-) ...
Hmmm? What if the user drags the fields over a target...the target
could "suck the text" out of the field and spit it out in another
field. (This essentially would be eliminating the user to type out
their words on a keyboard.) However, how would I handle the user
wanting to change their order? Could the text chunks they drag into
the target be "special chunks" that act as quasi buttons that when
clicked on by the users recreates that specific chunk text and
deletes itself from the answer field? The user could still drag
their fields around on the screen to order them the way they want,
and then just drag them into the target one at a time. What do you
think? This seem doable?
Sure. Create a number of small text fields with behavior set to a
behavior button and a target button. In the behavior button script set
up mousedown and mousemove handlers to handle dragging (see the
archives for how to do this), and in the mousemove handler include a
'if the mouseloc is within the rect of btn "target then eatme" '. Then
the on eatme handler in the card script takes the text of the target
field and appends it to the display field and deletes the target
field. In the display field, put a mouseup handler that hilites the
clicked line briefly for user feedback then creates a new small field,
sets it behavior to the behavior button, loads it with the line text,
then deletes the clicked line.
If that's what you want to do. Not sure why you prefer this to just
dragging the lines around to reorder them in the display field. I
guess it's a game that you have in mind?
-- Peter
Peter M. Brigham
pmb...@gmail.com
http://home.comcast.net/~pmbrig
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