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>Date:         Thu, 2 Jun 1994 20:50:37 +0200
>From: Campbell Robertson <cjr1@WAIKATO.AC.NZ>
>Subject:      APM - Jumping to a "Help" file and returning
>To: Multiple recipients of list AWARE <AWARE@cc1.kuleuven.ac.be>

>Hi all  :)

>I am trying to set up an interactive 'test' using APM. What I want to
>happen is that after a set period of failure to answer to question, a "Help
>Me" button will appear that, when clicked wil take the user to a Help file
>relevant to the question they were on.

...
>Can anyone tell me how to do this ? (In simple language preferably....I
>still find it all quite confusing !!) Am I looking at doing it in the right
>way, or is there an obvious way to do this which I am missing ? What I was
>thinking of doing was having a TimeOutGoTo which makes a button appear.
>That button when clicked will take the user to a Help page in a separate
>Authorware package, and then back. Of course the problems here are that if
>it jumps back from the Help file, it will end up at the "Help button" icon
>not the test; and if it jumps back to a specific part of the test then
>there will be bits of the display missing (ie: those parts which came in
>earlier screens).

>Many thanks for your help, in advance !

>Campbell


One way to do this is to set up a perpetual interaction before you
enter the test. In the test, count the number of wrong answers
using the built in variables/functions to do so or the time
in the interaction using a time branch, branch to a calculation
icon that does a presskey() to active the perpetual interaction
above.  In the perpetual, use the "return" branching option, so
that when help is fisnished the user returns to the part of the
test where she left off, graphics and variables intact.

Hope this helps,

Jon


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