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Help with interaction on slide
I am working on a puzzle interaction for an e-learning module and I am really stuck on how to make this work.
What I would like it to do:
I want the user to be able to enter in a "phone code" to get to a customer service rep. I have a specific 'code' that I made up for the answer. I don't know how to set up I am guessing variables to make this work.
When the user selects the code 357#, the correct layer should show and then they can move on.
If they select any other combination of numbers, then it is wrong and they should get the incorrect layer.
I will also need to account for how many times I want them to be incorrect before I stop the user. For example, after 2 incorrect attempts, I give them the first number, after 4 incorrect attempts, the first and second numbers. Then after the 5th incorrect attempt, give them the answer and move on.
How do I get this set-up?
This is part of an overall "escape room" type activity so it isn't really about the code and it is designed to be a challenge to slow them down. The rest of what I have put together will deliver the learning message.
The challenge with this is knowing when the number selected is the first, second and third.
I'd probably have three layers for each number with a tracking number variable:
- hundred
- varHundred = [1 = 100]
- show layer ten when varHundred changes
- ten
- varTen = [1 = 10]
- show layer one when varTen changes
- one
- varOne = [1 = 1]
- Add the variables together
- TotalVar
- Add VarH to Var
- Assuming they need to enter # at the end, this could be the submit button that does the adding. Otherwise, the submit button could add the variables. You should end up with a value up to 999 and the # sign. You can evaluate that to display correct/incorrect.
Side note: since you're using a phone image, I'd probably not use a submit button since phones don't have a submit. Perhaps the # is the submit.
- hundred
My layers approach above isn't the way I'd go. ")
I was playing with some ideas and I'd use a counting variable to track if it's a first, second, or third press. And then from there, add 100, 10, or 1 to the variable.
This also begs the question: is the juice worth the squeeze.
It's easier to get them to enter a number 357 in an entry box and evaluate than it is to get them to punch in three numbers on a phone. Unless of course you're teaching how to enter a code on a phone.
Here's a recording with one way to do it.
https://360.articulate.com/review/content/2f7e4163-238d-4634-b823-f0400d4e9f82/review
File attached.
Thank you so much! This was exactly what I needed and I just wasn't able to think of the right way to make it work. I think I got everything in it now :)
