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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.
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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 :)
