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Article #31082APM - Jumping to a "Help" file and returning
From: Campbell Robertson
Date: Thu, 02 Jun 1994 18:50
Date: Thu, 02 Jun 1994 18:50
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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. I have looked into the TimeOutGoTo and JumpFileReturn functions but can't work out how to arrange it so that the user will be returned to the point where they left off in the test, and not have to repeat any of it, and not lose their score to date. 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 ###################################################################### Campbell Robertson E-mail: cjr1@waikato.ac.nz School of Law Post: Private Bag 3105 University of Waikato Phone: (07) 838-4466 (x.6277) Hamilton, New Zealand Fax: (07) 838-4171 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- WWW users, Try this site > http://www.waikato.ac.nz/law/homepage.html ######################################################################
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