Step by Step, Example 6, Multiple Choice, Statistical Elements

Important Notes

1) There is no “Multiple Choice Element” as such. The menu Create Elements/ Macro…(See illustration) leads to the dialog where you create and define 1) a Static Text, 2) an Active List, 3) a Choose Box and 4) a Validater (optional). Theese elements are automatically linked together for the validation.
As you see, the Multiple Choice Dialog does in one stroke some of the steps that where detailed in Example 5. (Part of example 5 are obviously of  “Multiple Choice”-kind).
2) There are 3 types of Active Lists. There are 6 main types of Choose Elements. There are 3 additional Choose Element Special Options if the element is dependent on another element. Therefore : there are more than 50 possibilities available in the Multiple Choice dialog. The most eye-catching possibilities use multimedia. The Multiple Choice Dialog allows the user to view the "top ten" possibilities to easily see and understand the different available settings.In most cases you will choose one of the 10 samples, modify the text and click OK. Commented 1, screenshot 2, screenshot 3, screenshot 4, screenshot 5.
3) ADWorks intentionally abandons the traditional Checkbox and Radio Button structure, thereby increasing flexibility to create a wider variety of documents.
4) Statistical elements are Choose Boxes that are not linked to a Validater and thus the elements are no longer active. Statistical elements are useful when dealing with statistics. See this screenshot
The choices made to a Statistical Element are saved in the Activity File (See Schema of files  or see and refer to Exemple 1). These choices do not need to be validated and the Evaluation Table of these elements is ignored. The results of a statistical inquire can be analyzed using the commands in ADAnalyze. Statistical Choose Elements can be independently or dependently linked. See aspect of Statistic Element under ADPlayer.See also.

Exemple 6

As example of Multiple Choise, 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.

- Use the command New Source Document or open the document where you want to add the steps of the current example. This description will add the new elements to Document_Ex5.ADsrc and the modified document will be saved with the name Document_Ex6.ADsrc.

Remember: the Document_Ex5.ADsrc is the source file and the icon is represented by a "W". The Document_Ex5.ADcomp is the compiled file and the icon is represented by a "P". These documents are on the CD in the folder Sample/Try This/FolderEx5
- Choose Multiple Choice... from the menu Create Element of ADWorks. This opens the Multiple Choice Dialog with the Example Setting 1 (Check Box Type, Plain Text, Active). See illustration. Fill the fields like this and leave the dialog with OK. It looks like this, immediately after result. Arrange position and size of the elements (See and refer basic Notions).
- Click on Def. of Static Text and declare the portions of Referenced Text (See and refer Ex 4 or Ex 5, see Illustration, See Result after OK.
- Optional step: Do the "Same Color Operation" for the Choose Box, see Illustration.
- Click on Eval. of the Chose Box and fill the Eval Table like this. We need not to go to the Tab Settings (unless you want to add some Initial Display) . They are set as defined from the Multiple Choice Dialog. Leave with OK.
- Click on Def. of Static Text and define the References like this.
We want to test that  group of the document (Look and refer to Exercise 1).
This test will make a temporary jump to ADPlayer (temporary  =  you need not to compile).
The source document looks like this under ADPlayer.
Choose, under ADPlayer, the good and/or bad answers to check out.
Save the document with the command File/ Save or File/Save as. This will save a source file.
Don’t forget what you should know about compiled files (look at the end of Example 1)

On the CD you find this example in the folder Sample/Try This/FolderEx6/
The files there are

- Document_Ex6.ADsrc  (the source file; a "W" in the icon)
- Document_Ex6.ADcomp  (the compiled file; a "P" in the icon)
Optional (note done on version CD:
- Add some Initial Display for the Choose Box (Use the Setting Tab of the Eval.)
- Add at Static Text the Question "Give at RANKLIST the rank of the river in terms of length. (You are 1) to create a Choose Box, 2) to link it like this, 3) to define the Evaluation Table and 4) to associate the referenced text RANKLIST)

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