Trivia Game - Using Variables and JavaScript to remove answered questions from the deck.

Are you sending the info back to 50 variables? Or is the outcome a list of 50 flowers loaded into a single variable?

Hi Owen,

Thanks for your response!  The outcome is loaded into a single variable.  The code that I'm using (which I got from another of these posts but that I can't find now) is below.  I then have triggers that change the state of each flower when the single variable (FM) changes.  It works when the Javascript is repeated because FM changes each time the code runs.  Hopefully, that will also happen in the loop.  Here's the code (with a shorter list of single variables than I am using just to save space):

var player=GetPlayer();

var nv1=player.GetVar("F1");
var nv2=player.GetVar("F2");
//to
var nv100=player.GetVar("F100");

var myArray = [nv1, nv2, ....., nv100];

var filtered1 = myArray.filter(function(x) {return x>0;});

var myNumber = filtered1[Math.floor(Math.random() * filtered1.length)];
player.SetVar("FM",myNumber);

var myVariable = "F" + myNumber;
player.SetVar(myVariable, "0");

Ok, I think I get where you are going with this and a sequential loop should work for you. A sequential loop is basically a command statement that tells the computer to repeat the same sequence of commands a certain number of times.

The basic construct looks like this
 for ("variable to track iterations with a starting value"; "condition test to stop looping"; "command to update the tracking variable at the end of each loop") {
    "code you want to execute each loop";
}

That's it. 
So here is a quick example you can try right now in this window. Open up your browser's console. (For most browsers, click in the address bar and push the F12 key.) Copy and paste the following code into the console and execute it.

for (var i = 0; i < 10; i += 1) {
     console.log(i);
};

When you execute this code, you should see the numbers 0 through 9 returned.  So here is what happened.  We created a loop and declared a variable "i" with a value of 0.  We created a stop condition to exit the loop as soon as the variable "i" was equal to 10.  We incremented the value of the variable "i" by 1 each time we went through the loop. The code we executed during each loop was to write the current value of the variable "i" to the console log.  Make sense?

If I apply this basic looping construct to your code, it would look like this if I wanted to loop through 50 times:

//only need to get the player once
var player=GetPlayer();

//start the loop
for (var i = 0; i < 50; i += 1) {
//add your code and close the statement with "}"
    var nv1=player.GetVar("F1");
    var nv2=player.GetVar("F2");
    //to
    var nv100=player.GetVar("F100");

    var myArray = [nv1, nv2, ....., nv100];

    var filtered1 = myArray.filter(function(x) {return x>0;});

    var myNumber = filtered1[Math.floor(Math.random() * filtered1.length)];
    player.SetVar("FM",myNumber);

    var myVariable = "F" + myNumber;
    player.SetVar(myVariable, "0");
};

Let me know how it goes and if this explanation made sense.

~ Owen

Yes!  That makes sense and it works perfectly!  Turns out I was doing a couple things wrong.  I'm a trial-and-error user of javascript, in that I search the web for bits of code that do what I want and play with it until I get it to work.  But, this one was eluding me.  Now, I just need to work out the logistics/connections of the different slides and get my math to work correctly.

Thanks very much for the help!! - Eva

Thanks!  But, I'm afraid that I'm not a member of LinkedIn (or any other social network).  I find that because I already do so much on the computer, I don't want more accounts to keep up with.  So, I've never joined.  I did find your info on LinkedIn though and will be able to use that to contact you if I need to.  I really appreciate the current help and offer of future aid!  I would post a link to the material I used your code in, but the server I put those things on is currently down due to a fire and I don't know when it will be back in working order.  -Eva

Could anyone help me use the trivia array while removing some questions or characters?  Which code would I have to alter to make this happen.  I have made several attempts, but must be missing something.

I have changed the variables to remove the 4th question in each section and removed the questions, but the character continues to come up after questions  have been asked and at that point, the user has no further options (i.e. continue button, etc.)

Yes!  That was the fix.  I am new to Storyline and wanted to challenge myself, but this was beyond my scope.  Thank you!!! 

Thank you for jumping in on this Matths, I'm not sure how I missed the notification.