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I need to print the contents of a text field. I think I have figured it out. (Once again, Revolution seems to handle a simple, common need in a needlessly complex and obscure way). I post this message to provide the information to others who might search the forum for this topic, and to get further ...

Thank you, Klaus. And thank you for explaining the use of the URL statement in another thread (newbie question; write to file, read from file?). That helped me make my script above work properly.

Derek

I'm wondering about error checking/trapping when writing a text file. The sample stack, "Multiple Choice Questionnaire" contains the code: -- check for an error if word 1 of the result is "error" then However, I am getting a result "can't open file." Therefore, using the RunRev code sample above, th...

Thanks, Klaus. Your suggestion will solve my current problem, and is much easier than anything I had thought of. Is there a good way to tackle the more general problem of single-card modifications to group behaviors? In a more complex situation, it seems like I might have half a dozen "if statements...

This must be a common problem, but I haven't found information on how to deal with it. I have a quiz stack with different substacks for each section of the quiz. Each card within a substack shares three different background groups. For the most part, this works well. If I add a card to a substack, i...

Thank you, Lynn. This is just what I was looking for.

Derek

I need to develop a multiple choice quiz stack, and I am hoping to find an example or template that I can modify to fit my purposes. I know about the Multiple Choice Questionnaire in the Revolution Documentation Sample Projects. I have spent several days trying to modify it, but each time I adapt so...

In debugging or modifying scripts, it is often useful to "comment out" a block of code, so that it will be ignored (treated as a comment) until I decide to reactivate it. I know that I can turn any single line of code into a comment, by adding -- (double dash) at the beginning. However, this is tedi...

Thank you, Klaus. This will solve my problem. It's great to have such quick answers from the forum. I hope someday the documentation will improve enough that simple questions like this will be findable.

Derek

I have a card in my stack, and I want to duplicate it. Usually, the duplicate will serve as the next card in the same stack. Sometimes, I will want to place it in a different sub stack or another main stack. These online forums find no messages when I search for "duplicate card." The same is true fo...

Thanks for your help. I am glad to learn how to handle details like this.

Derek

Thanks, Mark. I appreciate the confirmation.

Derek

I could find nothing in the documentation, the forum, nor online searches for how to move a card to a different position in a stack. I'm currently working on creating a quiz, by modifying Revolution's Multiple Choice Questionanaire from the Sample Projects. If I create a quiz question as the second ...

I want to place a label field on almost every card, so it seems logical to make it a background object. In the documentation and tutorials, I find only references to using groups as background objects. Do I need to create a group of my one object, in order to make it a background object, or is there...

Thank you. This is just what I was looking for.

Derek