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Quiz Show
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by John Morris
- To install using the provided
web page
1. Place all the files with
the extension ".class" (i.e.
"QuizShow.class") into the same
folder as the file "quizshow.htm".
2. Place the file "questions.dat"
into the same folder as the file
"quizshow.htm".
3. Place all the files with the
extension ".au" (i.e. "player1.au")
in a folder names "sounds" and place
the folder "sounds" in the same
folder as the file "quizshow.htm".
4. Place all the files with the
extension ".gif" (i.e. "lights.gif")
in a folder names "images" and place
the folder "images" in the same
folder as the file "quizshow.htm".
5. Finally, open "quizshow.htm with your
web browser.
- To install on your web page
1. Place the following html into
the html of the page on which you
want Concentration to appear:
2. Place all the files with
the extension ".class" (i.e.
"QuizShow.class") into the same
folder as the file "quizshow.htm".
3. Place the file "questions.dat"
into the same folder as the file
"quizshow.htm".
4. Place all the files with the
extension ".au" (i.e. "player1.au")
in a folder names "sounds" and place
the folder "sounds" in the same
folder as the file "quizshow.htm".
5. Place all the files with the
extension ".gif" (i.e. "lights.gif")
in a folder names "images" and place
the folder "images" in the same
folder as the file "quizshow.htm".
6. Finally, open "quizshow.htm with your
web browser.
- To customize Quiz Show:
To add your own questions to the
game simply add your question to
the "questions.dat" file in this
form:
Question #
line 1
line 2
line 3
line 4
Choices
choice 1
.
.
.
choice 8
Answers
answer1,answer2...answer8
Replace the '#' with the index of
the question (i.e. Question 1,
Question 2, etc).
Replace line 1 through line 4 with
the question. The game will display up
to 4 lines for the question but you
don't need to add all 4 lines if the
question is not 4 lines long.
Replace choice 1 through choice 8 with
the 8 possible answers to the question.
The choices can only be 1 line long each.
Again, you don't need to provide
8 choices but there is room for up to 8.
Finally, replace answer1 through answer 8
with the letter index of answers as they appear
in choice list (i.e. 'a'=choice 1,'b'=choice 2,
etc.). Once again, you don't need to specify
8 answers but there is room for up to 8.
Customize the applet by adding param tags
between the tags in
the folling form:
The following is a list of attributes
with their possible values:
name value
---- -----
questions Any integer > 0
This is the total number of questions
that the game will ask.
random "on" or "off"
If random is on, the questions will
be chosen at random for the question
list in the question data file
file The name of the data file with the
question data in it... the default
is "questions.dat" but if you'd
like to name your question file
something else you can specify
it with this tag.
url The ABSOLUTE URL of the cgi
script (ie.
"http://www.your_domain.com/path_to_the_script")
that will keep track of the
names and high scores. You don't
need to specify this unless you
are using a script to keep track
of high scores.
*The easiest way to configure your
menu is to look at the tags in
the "quizshow.htm" file included.
This applet is free if you add a
link to:
www.javaplayground.com
on the page which uses it.
Visit Java Playground again for
more applets.
John Morris
(
geocities.com/stefanoritella)