How to make a QUIZ system?

[MetaGamer]

I want to know how to make a QUIZ system in MTA. In SA-MP it was very easy. For e.j.

  
What are you? 
  
A) Human 
B) Male 
c) Guy 
D) Gal 
  

[unknooooown]

I want to know how to make a QUIZ system in MTA. In SA-MP it was very easy. For e.j.

  
What are you? 
  
A) Human 
B) Male 
c) Guy 
D) Gal 
  

There are a lot of different ways of doing this.

Do you want it to be pure text, do you want a gui for it or something else?

Give some more details on what your idea is and I will try to explain how you can make it.

You are gonna have to script it yourself, but I don't mind pointing you in the right direction.

[MetaGamer]

I want it to be in a GUI. It's hard to make 15 gui's for each questions and getting the button click. It's a lengthy process.

[unknooooown]

I want it to be in a GUI. It's hard to make 15 gui's for each questions and getting the button click. It's a lengthy process.

You wouldnt have to use 15 different gui's

I know that it would seem like the most logic solution, but there is a way around that

  
function openCustomGui(msg) 
     
    local gui = {} 
    gui._placeHolders = {} 
     
    local screenWidth, screenHeight = guiGetScreenSize() 
    local windowWidth, windowHeight = 200, 131 
    local left = screenWidth/2 - windowWidth/2 
    local top = screenHeight/2 - windowHeight/2 
    gui["_root"] = guiCreateWindow(left, top, windowWidth, windowHeight, msg, false) 
    guiWindowSetSizable(gui["_root"], false) 
     
    gui["pushButton"] = guiCreateButton(20, 95, 150, 23, "button", false, gui["_root"]) 
    --addEventHandler("onClientGUIClick", gui["pushButton"], closeWindow, false) 
     
    gui["label"] = guiCreateLabel(15, 27, 171, 61, "textToDisplay", false, gui["_root"]) 
    guiLabelSetHorizontalAlign(gui["label"], "center", false) 
    guiLabelSetVerticalAlign(gui["label"], "center") 
     
    return gui, windowWidth, windowHeight 
end 
  

This function will be called every time you use 'openCustomGui(argument)

Look at the code below for an example.

  
function setCustomGuiTextMessage() 
randomMsg = 0 
  
    for i=1,15 do  
        randomMsg = randomMsg + 1 
        openCustomGui(randomMsg) 
    end 
end 
addCommandHandler("setCustomGuiTextMessage",setCustomGuiTextMessage) 
  

This result would make the GUI trigger 15 times, with a new message, in this case just a number, for every time the window is opened. From 1-15.

Like this, we dont have to create many differeny guis for each message. As long as we know there is room for the message, we are good to go!

If I were to change for i=1,15 do to for i=1,15000 do , then 15000 new windows would be opened, but we still only have ONE main window that we needed to create.

Tell me if it makes sense to you

[MetaGamer]

awesome. But how to create 4 buttons on the window and detect which button has been clicked?

[unknooooown]

awesome. But how to create 4 buttons on the window and detect which button has been clicked?

You could do something like:

  
 gui["pushButton1"] = guiCreateButton(20, 95, 150, 23, "button", false, gui["_root"]) 
gui["pushButton2"] = guiCreateButton(40, 95, 150, 23, "button", false, gui["_root"]) 
gui["pushButton3"] = guiCreateButton(60, 95, 150, 23, "button", false, gui["_root"]) 
gui["pushButton4"] = guiCreateButton(80, 95, 150, 23, "button", false, gui["_root"]) 
addEventHandler("onClientGUIClick", gui["pushButton1"], func1, false) 
addEventHandler("onClientGUIClick", gui["pushButton2"], func2, false) 
addEventHandler("onClientGUIClick", gui["pushButton3"], func3, false) 
addEventHandler("onClientGUIClick", gui["pushButton4"], func4, false) 
  

  
function func1() 
outputChatBox("Pressed pushButton1 and triggered function func1") 
end 
-- 
function func2() 
outputChatBox("Pressed pushButton2 and triggered function func2") 
end 
-- 
function func3() 
outputChatBox("Pressed pushButton3 and triggered function func3") 
end 
-- 
function func4() 
outputChatBox("Pressed pushButton4 and triggered function func4") 
end 
  

Again, this is just to show you how it can be done.

This isnt the best way of doing it ( I would never do it like this for a script. ), but it can give you an idea of how you should do it yourself.

UPDATE.

Just wanted to add a more clean way of detecting the buttons.

  
gui["pushButton1"] = guiCreateButton(20, 95, 150, 23, "button", false, gui["_root"]) 
addEventHandler("onClientGUIClick",root, detectBtn, false) 
  
-- In this function you can add all the if checks you want. Doesnt matter if there is one or 1000000 buttons in there : - P 
function detectBtn() 
if source == gui["pushButton1"] then 
outputChatBox("Button pressed") 
end 
end 
  
  

NOTE: When using onClientGUIClick:

The source of this event is the GUI element that was clicked.

[MetaGamer]

You man is my saviour.

[unknooooown]

No problem