Lloyd's Software Application Prototype

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Introduction

This example shows how to create a simple software application (a class syllabus) that collects research data while an individual explores it. The example will be created as part of a class activity. This is a support page for the activity that provides some scripts for easy copying and pasting.

Notes

& is the concatenation symbol (adding chunks together)

Always put text strings inside double quotes (e.g. “Description”)

Script for Button "Begin":

global gDescriptionFrequency

global gDescriptionTime

global gSectionName

on mouseUp

put 0 into gDescriptionFrequency

put 0 into gDescriptionTime

go to next card

end mouseUp

Script for Card "Description":

global gDescriptionFrequency

global gDescriptionTime

global gSectionName

global gStartTime, gEndTime, gTotalTime

on opencard

add 1 to gDescriptionFrequency

put "Description" into gSectionName

put the seconds into gStartTime

end opencard

 
Script for Button "Home" (on card “Description”):

global gDescriptionFrequency

global gDescriptionTime

global gSectionName

global gStartTime, gEndTime, gTotalTime

on mouseUp

put the seconds into gEndTime

put gEndtime - gStartTime into gTotalTime

add gTotalTime to gDescriptionTime

put the date&","&the time&","&gSectionName&","&gTotalTime&return after field "data" on

card "data"

go to card "home"

end mouseUp

Script for Button "I’m Done" (on card “menu”):

global gDescriptionFrequency

global gDescriptionTime

on mouseUp

put "Description Page Frequency"&","&gDescriptionFrequency&return after field "data" on card "data"

put "Session Ended"&return&return after field "data" on card "data"

go to card "data"

end mouseUp

Script for Button "Erase Data" (on card “data”):

on mouseUp

put empty into field "data"

end mouseUp

Script for Button "Erase Data" (on card “data”):

on mouseUp

put empty into field "data"

end mouseUp