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Hi Larry,
I posted an issue on google code. There’s a problem the way jQuizme handles entities in answers.

I’ve explained it in detail here: http://code.google.com/p/jquizme/issues/detail?id=3

@Gary McCafferty:
Yeah, you’re right. What happens is that jQuizMe get the user answer from the html file and not from the index of the right answer. So the special characters is converted to a html tag, which changes the user’s answer. I’ll look into it.

@mark:
Read the jQuizMe-uncompressed.js file to understand it.
Search for the first following match
” *”
and replace it with what you want.
“Missed * ”

@Everyone
I’m halfway done with the updates for jQuizMe but I got stuck with examinations for college and moving. Bare with me.

@ Chris Siebels
Thanks for the website link. It really did help at solving your problem.

Solution:
Change the ans:”" } part of the quiz types to ans: true }
Your answers are strings. Change them to a boolean.
ans: “” is a string.
While, ans: true or ans:1 is a boolean.

Why?
In the true or false quiz type, if you answer is a true or false, then your questions will not be modified. Otherwise, they will be compared with other answer to form a true or false statement.

More technical answer:
The = appears because if your answer is not a boolean, then it will make up a question by comparing other answers from the quiz type section of the object.

Hi Larry!

This plugin is absolutely fantastic! I develop websites with a company that offers online education for “at risk” students. This is a great way to allow them to practice some exercises before the exam!

so far, so good. This accomplishes everything i was hoping to do. I keep running into, what seems to be a minor snag that i was hoping you could help with.

In some of the questions i need to put a button graphic, with a rollover effect, that plays an audio file. I typically use this in the head of my html doc:

$(document).ready(function(){
$(“.flashplay”)
.hover(function(event){
$(this).attr(“src”, “playButton_on.gif”);
},
function(event){
$(this).attr(“src”, “playButton_off.gif”);
});
});

The “snag” is that this will work properly when hitting “begin quiz.” As soon as you hit next, the jquery statement stops working. I know that i need to add the jquery function somewhere else, but i am new to jquery and wasn’t sure where to put it. So far, everything i have tried has not worked.

Any help would be wonderful. Thanks for all of the hard work! This is a really awesome plugin! Nice job!

# After restart, quiz switches to last.
- You’re right. That is a bug. The bug is jQuizMe misused the $.extend function.
The bug is fix now. But I will release the fix after this weekend.
Here’s the fix if you want to do it yourself.

From: jQuizMe-uncompressed.js, line 167
//## Old Code
var settings = $.extend( _settings, options ), lang = $.extend( true, _lang, userLang );
//## End of Old Code

//## New Code
var settings = $.extend( {}, _settings, options ), lang = $.extend( true, {}, _lang, userLang );
//## End of New Code

# Audio with jQuizMe
- Use jPlayer to add audio to your website.
http://www.happyworm.com/jquery/jplayer/

# Rollover issues
- When a quiz restarts or moves to the next problem, the element event or the “binding” event get ereased.
To solve this problem use the “live” event, instead of normal binding actions. This makes sure that new elements will all maintain the same event properties.
jQuery live: http://docs.jquery.com/Events/live

Change your code to the following:
From: sample.html
//## Old Code
$(“.flashplay”)
.hover(function(event){
$(this).attr(“src”, “playButton_on.gif”);
},
function(event){
$(this).attr(“src”, “playButton_off.gif”);
});
//## End of Old Code

//## New Code
$(“.flashplay”).live( “mouseover”, function(e){
$(e.target).attr(“src”, “playButton_on.gif”);
}).live( “mouseout”, function(e){
$(e.target).attr(“src”, “playButton_off.gif”);
});
//##End of new code

Hope that helped.
Donations are welcomed.
http://pledgie.com/campaigns/3174

Thanks for your time,
Larry Battle

Larry,

I am so sorry for the delay in a great big THANK YOU!!!! Your suggestions/fixes solved everything.

I have been playing with jquizme quiz a bit including skinning/customizing it. Man, you did a fantastic job in thinking ahead and making it VERY flexible! It is very easy to follow follow your code and with your comments (and css classes defined in jquizme) you have made it very easy to style whatever i want. You really thought this through! This is a top notch project and very professional. Thanks for your hard work and sharing it with us.

I really appreciate you taking the time to help me out. Donation definitely coming your way.

Thanks again!

Hi Larry,

I am working on a quiz using JQuizMe where one of the questions has an “All of the above” option (the whole quiz is of the multiList type). The answers to each question are automatically randomized which defeats the purpose of the “All of the above” option as it doesn’t always appear last in the list.

I looked through the wiki at code.google.com for the option, tried setting allRandom and random to false but that did not work.

How can I get the options for a question to appear in the same order every time?

Hey Larry,

I just dropped you a donation. Thanks again for your help and work on this project. I have had a lot of fun with it and have also learned a lot about jquery.

In my experimenting I was having a problem that i was hoping you could help me with. I have been experimenting with some Spanish quizzes. Obviously there are a number of special characters in Spanish. JQuizMe handles these characters just fine unless the special character is the last character in the answer. For instance, if the answer is “está” it will be flagged as a wrong answer even when you typed it in correctly (ALT+0225). This only happens when the accent is the last character in the answer. For instance “estás” works just fine without any problems.
I did notice that the answer would show as correct if i added a space (spacebar) after the last character (where you type the answer in the input field – the actual answer in the js does not have the space). I was going to try to append a nbsp; to the answer (when the check btn is clicked) but figured i should ask you in case you know of a more practical way around it.

Thanks again for all the work. I will keep the donations coming when i can.

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http://mynichecomputing.org/NOnline_Test_Bldg_Kit7/autoTest.htm

Hello Larry!

1.Can I collect the results of the quiz and send them into an e-mail after the last question?

2.Can I have the next question depending by the previous one?
Ex:
Q1. Are you a male: Yes NO

-clik on yes the second question will be: Q2. How old are you?
-click on no the Q2 is: how tall are you?

Thank you for your help!

Hey Larry,

Great work on the plugin!

Is there a way to add a custom text summary to the end of the quiz? Something like

“Thank you for taking our quiz! If you would like more information, click here” Etc Etc

Also, is there a way to always show ansInfo regardless if the question was correct or incorrect? Currently it only shows if the question was incorrect.

Thanks for everything!
-Ronnie

hi!
I very very stupid question I guess..

In css and in the Options table there some Abbreviations I’m not able to undestand

in the q-ol-el

el = External Links ?

in the animationCode: EL, ON, SPD (speed, ok) what EL and ON stand for??

Last thing, Is it possible to share translations to other languages? If not already present, I’ll be happy to translate it in Italian.