Step by Step, Example 1, Choose Box

Let’s say that we would like to have this - (Look at Illustration) - on the screen when using ADPlayer.
To obtain the result  we do the following steps with ADWorks.
- Choose Create New ADWoks Source Document from menu File of ADWorks
- Choose Static Text from the menu Create Element of ADWorks (See Result)
- Call the definition dialog of that Static Text (Look how to do that) (See Result)
- Use Delete All from the Edition of the RTF Editor and type in the text "Choose the capital of France and the language spoken in France on the two elements below. Validate your Choices with the Validater menu or with a click on his Red spot." Select the text you want to color and use the palette to color the selected text. (See Result)
- Quit the RTF- Editor with OK
- Choose Choose Box from the menu Create Element of ADWorks (See Result)
- Call the definition dialog of that Choose Box (Click on Def. of that element, when selected) (See Result, Pict1 , Pict2) Observe that the dialog has 3 tabs.
- Click Edit List Tab of the definition dialog of a Choose Box. (See Result)
- Write the list with your proposals  (See Result)
- Leave the definition dialog of that Choose Box with OK  (See Result)
- Call the evaluation dialog of that Choose Box (Look how to do that) (See Result)
- Define the possibilities you want to evaluate (only Paris in our first example) (Look how to do that)  (See Result)
- Quit the definition dialog of that Choose Box with OK
- Choose a second Choose Box from menu Create Element of ADWorks, it's for the choice of the language. (See Result)
- Call the definition dialog of that second Choose Box to define its drop down list like this.
- Call the evaluation dialog of that second Choose Box fill his list of possibilities like this.(Only French in our first example)
- Choose Validater from the menu Create Element of ADWorks (See Result)
- Now we are to link the two Choose Boxes to the Validater. To creatre this link we 1) make a multiple selection of the that three elements. (See Result) and we 2) click on the LINK-button on the Validater

The explained steps make a group of AD elements. A document may contain several groups of AD elements.

We want to test that group of the document (currently the only group) (Look how to do that test).
This test will make a temporary jump to ADPlayer (temporary  =  you need not to compile).
The source document looks like this under ADPlayer.
See some most frequent error that may happen.
Choose, under ADPlayer, the good answers (Paris and French) to get the result of the test of that first group.
Try bad answers and check out the commands of the Validater Menu.
The appearing messages with this trials are the Default Messages. (Click here for What are Messages?)

Go back to ADWorks (Look how to do this) and save the document with the command File/ Save or File/Save as. This will save a source file.

The student will only work with compiled file and ADPlayer. (See Schema of files)
Compiled files can't be changed anymore and the student can't look "What are the possibilities of the evaluation table".
Students save the answers, given when using a compiled file, in a Activity File.(See Schema of files)
Activity Files can be opened with ADPlayer to go on to give answers.
The answers in a Activity Files can analyzed with ADAnalyze (See about ADAnalyze).
The command of  File/ Create a compiled file  of ADWorks is used to create a compiled file. (The command Create compiled file will come up with the warning The Summery of General Parameters is empty. The command File/General Parameters and the field Summery on the tab Compilation (see illustration) allow to fill this empty field.

On the CD you find this first example in the folder Sample/Try This/FolderEx1/
The files there are

- Document_Ex1.ADsrc  (the source file; a "W" in the icon)
- Document_Ex1.ADcomp  (the compiled file; a "P" in the icon)
 
Note, Choose Box are "cool":
When the writing of an item in the list of a Choose Box is changed, then the Evaluation Table is automatically adapted. Try it out.
In item in the list cannot be removed as long as it is used in some Evaluation Table.
Used items are marked with "!" in the column "D" in the list on the tab List of the Definition Dialog (click Def.).
Use the column "D" to change the order of the items.


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