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Another challenge on the user forum, http://forums.adobe.com/message/4387510#4387510:  "wonder if it is possible to have 5 click boxes on a slide that must be clicked in a specific order before the slide will advance?" Had to ask for some more details. There are no extra (wrong) click boxes on the slide, the check for a correct sequence could be done by using a Check button, and the Next button should appear on the slide only when the sequence of clicks is correct. The user wanted to have the possibility to check after 5 clicks or to have an 'intermediate' check after each click. I thought it also to be a good practice to disable a click box immediately after it has been clicked, since a double click on the same click box was not wanted. 

 

Play with this SWF. You'll find two similar slides after the introduction slide. 

1. On slide First the Check button will appear after having clicked on the 5 click boxes in the sequence you wanted. You can watch the number of clicks in a Text caption at the bottom. Once a click box is clicked it will be disabled. If your sequence is not correct, all will be reset and you can try again.
2. On slide Second you'll have the Check button from the start and you can use it at any time. If the check results in at least one wrong click, you'll get a Reset button. After the last click, if the sequence was correct the Next button will appear.

• 5 click boxes (that cover up rectangle shapes). I labeled those click boxes in the sequence they should be clicked: first CB_1, then CB_2 etc; each click box will trigger an advanced action with the same label. That is only possible because the click boxes were labeled before the actions.
• Buttons: BtCheck1 that will trigger the advanced action SeqCheck and button BtNext1 that has the action Go to Next Slide; both are initially invisible
• Text Captions TCNumber (shows the number of clicks), that is visible and set to show for the rest of the project (also needed on slide Second)
• Text Captions TC_Wrong/TC_OK1 that are initially invisible and used for feedback in the action SeqCheck

Because variables have to be reset, the On Enter event of this slide is used to trigger the Advanced action Enter2.

Almost identical to the first slide. Because the click boxes do get another ID, but trigger the same advanced actions CB1... for once I didn't even label them :-). The Text Caption TCNumber is still visible on this slide, because it was timed for rest of project. Other objects are:

• Buttons: BtCheck2 (visible) that will trigger the advanced action SeqBis and button BtNext2 (invisible) that has the action Go to Next Slide
• Button BtReset (initially invisible) that triggers the advanced action BtReset (same label possible because button got it first)
• Text Captions TC_Some/TC_OKUntil/TC_OK2 that are initially invisible and used for feedback in the action SeqBis

 

Only two user variables were created to be used for checking the sequence:

1. v_counter: will count the number of clicks (correct or incorrect); this user variables is visible in the text caption TCNumber. For that reason I gave it a default value of 0, so that it will also show a value in the text caption when no click has occurred.
2. v_correct: will be incremented when a click has been in the correct sequence. 

The first variable will be used twice in my logic:

1. to check if the click sequence is correct, for the click box CB_1 that should be clicked first I check "v_counter = 1?", for CB_3 it will be  "v_counter = 3?' etc and increment v_correct if that is the case
2. to check if until now the sequence was OK, which will be the case as long as v_correct is identical to v_counter

Advanced actions

CB_1, CB_2.... CB_5 

• v_counter and v_correct are reset to 0
• button BtCheck1 is hidden again
• all click boxes are enabled 

 
Enter2

SeqBis, 

BtReset

Conclusion