Your strategy and the script is fine, just add global variable declaration wherever "myVariable" appears, i.e. "global myVariable".

Kenneth Kawamoto
www.materiaprima.co.uk

Thanks very much i have that working ^_^

The only problem i seem to have now is with the script on the start button.

I have got some editable text fields on the first welcome page of the quiz, these take the childs Name, Age, Class and School. This is done so that on the last page of the quiz a certificate can be shown with all these details etc..

Here is the script i placed on the button, if you would be so kind as to instruct me of what is wrong on it i would be very grateful (as it keeps giving me a script error).

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on mouseUp me
  if member(52).text = "" then
    alert("please Enter Your Name")
  else
    member(58).text = "Congratulations" & RETURN & RETURN && member(52).text
&& "has successfully completed the sewerby challenge" & RETURN & RETURN && member(52).text
&& "aged" && member(53).text && "from class" && member(54).text && "at" && member(55).text
&& "scored" member(22).text & RETURN & RETURN "Well Done!!!!"
  end if
end

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And the error i get is:

Script error: Comma expected

&&"scored" member(22).text & RETURN & RETURN
"Well Done!!!!"?

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Thanks again

Peter Butler
Tandokuno-Design.com

RETURN & "Well Done!!!!"

"&" is missing.

Kenneth Kawamoto
www.materiaprima.co.uk

tried inserting that and still no joy :(

on mouseUp me
  if member(52).text = "" then
    alert("please Enter Your Name")
  else
    member(58).text = "Congratulations" & RETURN & RETURN && member(52).text\
    && "has successfully completed the sewerby challenge" & RETURN & RETURN && member(52).text\
    && "aged" && member(53).text && "from class" && member(54).text && "at" && member(55).text\
    && "scored" member(22).text & RETURN & RETURN && "Well Done"
  go to 5  
  end if
end

it came up with a new error though, says 'expected end of statement"

any ideas?

(thankyou for your patience btw, its very hard to find people that are good at director, and most textbooks arent very good)

Peter Butler
Tandokuno Design

"scored" & member(22).text

"&" is missing.

Kenneth Kawamoto
www.materiaprima.co.uk

Thanks Kenneth thats great !!!

Just one final problem ^_^ everything you said works perfect the only element that doesnt work is the score bit. I thought this might be because it uses a global variable?

with this:

on mouseUp me
  if member(52).text = "" then
    alert("please Enter Your Name")
  else
    member(58).text = "Congratulations" & RETURN & RETURN && member(52).text\
    && "has successfully completed the sewerby challenge" & RETURN & RETURN && member(52).text\
    && "aged" && member(53).text && "from class" && member(54).text && "at" && member(55).text\
    && "scored" && member(22).text & RETURN & RETURN && "Well Done"
  go to 5  
  end if
end

it displays it as 0 regardless of what you score... I tried replacing the && member(22).text with && myVariable but it still shows it as 0. I remmbered to put the 'global myVariable' at the top so it's not that ? hmm

any ideas?

also how did you learn to use director so well? you are such an asset to this forum thanks for all the help you give people. I've ordered a Lingo in a nutshell book which im hoping might help me learn this coding.

Peter Butler
Tandokuno Design

(Ill show you the finished project when its done ^_^)

If you get 0 that means myVariable is 0. Type in the message window:
--
put myVariable
--

What do you get?

I learned Director initially at college but real learning all came from doing work. If you have to deliver something there's no choice but you have to learn quickly and complete the task!

Kenneth Kawamoto
www.materiaprima.co.uk