[Tutorial] Quiz Game

[RobertD63]

Okay reading through my old posts I feel bad cause I was kinda rude/true noob.

But thats not what I wanted to ask. I created a new button called endButton and set it to be the button to start the game and end it. I did this because I set my buttons to have a different layout and the start and end buttons look bad. So my problem is when ever i swich the button from this:

[answerOne setTitle:@"Let's Play!" forState:UIControlStateNormal];

to:

[endButton setTitle:@"Let's Play!" forState:UIControlStateNormal];

and then hide answerOne the endButton does nothing. But when I unhide answerOne it still loads the quiz. What am I missing here? So it looks like this:

- (void)viewDidLoad {
    [super viewDidLoad];
	questionLive = NO;
	restartGame = NO;
	theQuestion.text = @"Welcome to the Quiz Game! Think you're a pretty smart cookie, huh? Well, let's test your knowledge!";
	theScore.text = @"Score:0";
	theLives.text = @"";
	questionNumber = 0;
	myScore = 0;
	myLives = 0;
	[endButton setTitle:@"Let's Play!" forState:UIControlStateNormal];
	[answerOne setHidden:YES];
	[answerTwo setHidden:YES];
	[answerThree setHidden:YES];
	[answerFour setHidden:YES];
	[self loadQuiz];

I've done all the connections and code i've needed to do that I know of. I hooked the button up in IB.

[kohjingyu]

Originally Posted by M of IMAK

Once you have 'random() % numberOfQuestions', just multiply by 6 (in this case of a flat array) and index into the array. You should also randomize the position of each answer to mix things up.

I started out with random in 'That Ain't It! Trivia Game', but eventually moved to keeping track of which questions were displayed because using random was causing repeat questions more often than we liked.

What do you mean by index it into the array?

[Tristran]

Awesome Tute, thanks.

Will give this a crack when I get home.

[kohjingyu]

Could the restart game function just be reloading the quiz?

[fail01]

Hey can we put any color to UIButton as background? instead of a normal white UIButton, like a red UIButton and when we click, a yellow button is shown and so on...

[daniel.steel]

Using the code that AEDave supplied does anyone else's crash when trying to restart the quiz?

Thanks

[kohjingyu]

The restartGame function doesn't work.

[daniel.steel]

Could this please be added?

[chaseacton]

Originally Posted by daniel.steel

Could this please be added?

Yes, I am desperately in need of a restart function for this that also works for other apps. that is, pressing a button returns to the original view that was present when the game was first loaded.

[tofupunk]

Originally Posted by chaseacton

Yes, I am desperately in need of a restart function for this that also works for other apps. that is, pressing a button returns to the original view that was present when the game was first loaded.

Anyone figure this out yet?

[chaseacton]

Originally Posted by tofupunk

Anyone figure this out yet?

I have an idea that would only take a little amount of time from a somewhat skilled programmer. You could just separate the game into 3 views including main menu (has start button), the actual game view, and then the final end view which has the restart button.

When you press start at the begging, it just stacks the view,

startView -----> gameView

when the game is over, it stacks the restart view.

gameView -----> endView

then, when its time to restart, you press the restart button and all the views are unstacked.

startView <----- gameView <----- endView



I would be able to do this if it was built in IB, but since its not, i need a more skilled programmer.

This could all be done inside one window with one view controller.

[tofupunk]

There are two things I am trying to do with a quiz like this. 1, I would love to get the restart button working, but have been unsuccessful.
2, I would like to have multiple types of quizzes on the main view, with buttons leading to each quiz, but I have not had the best of luck with this either. Anyone else know how to best go about these?

[chaseacton]

Originally Posted by tofupunk

There are two things I am trying to do with a quiz like this. 1, I would love to get the restart button working, but have been unsuccessful.
2, I would like to have multiple types of quizzes on the main view, with buttons leading to each quiz, but I have not had the best of luck with this either. Anyone else know how to best go about these?

If you could do #2, then #1 would come easy. Unfortunately, too much of this was done programmatically for me to help/

[chaseacton]

Originally Posted by chaseacton

If you could do #2, then #1 would come easy. Unfortunately, too much of this was done programmatically for me to help/

Bump for a restart function.

[bonzer1]

Thanks for the tutorial !!!
It's possible to have the question random and not always in the same order? For example i write in the txt file 100 quiz and each time i start the quizgame on my iphone it take 10 random quiz from the txt file.
Thanks

[sarahconnor]

Did any one ever figure out how to reset the game???? I am sooo stuck!

[GeauxApple]

Has anyone fixed this issue: checkAnswer method or fixed it so when you press Restart Quiz it actually works?

- (IBAction)buttonOne
{
if(questionNumber == 0){
// This means that we are at the startup-state
// We need to make the other buttons visible, and start the game.
[answerTwo setHidden:NO];
[answerThree setHidden:NO];
[answerFour setHidden:NO];
[self askQuestion];
}
else
{
NSInteger theAnswerValue = 1;
[self checkAnswerint)theAnswerValue];
if(restartGame==YES)
{
[self loadQuiz];
}
}
}

[chaseacton]

Nope, we're all still waiting. I think someone should redesign the game with IB to make it more editable and pretty

[LemonMeringue]

Maybe you?

[chaseacton]

Originally Posted by LemonMeringue

Maybe you?

I would if I had the time.

[LemonMeringue]

some sleep would be nice

[sarahconnor]

So attached is the file for the Quiz using IB, but i changed up the quiz a lil bit. The only thing it is missing is when you hit the restart button, it will not load again! If any one can figure this out, PLEASE let me know!!!!!

Thanks!

Mandy

[sarahconnor]

So THIS TIME IT IS attached is the file for the Quiz using IB, but i changed up the quiz a lil bit. The only thing it is missing is when you hit the restart button, it will not load again! If any one can figure this out, PLEASE let me know!!!!!

Thanks!

Mandy

[chaseacton]

Originally Posted by sarahconnor

So THIS TIME IT IS attached is the file for the Quiz using IB, but i changed up the quiz a lil bit. The only thing it is missing is when you hit the restart button, it will not load again! If any one can figure this out, PLEASE let me know!!!!!

Thanks!

Mandy

Well i could make a restart function as soon as you fix it because some of the button crash the app when pressed.

[sarahconnor]

It seems like it crashes because of the data that is cached in the quiz view...
IN QUIZVIEW.M do this:

- (IBAction)buttonStart:(id)sender
{
	[self loadQuiz];
	//[self askQuestion];
}

Then once you get to the quiz, hit the yes button, then the quiz will start, and you can go thru all the motions, but once you try to restart, the quiz view is back to where you left off....See what I mean? Sorry! Im sure you can figure this out... I just cant

Thank you!!! Let me know if you have any findings!

Mandy!