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Here's a tall order, but if anyone can help, it would be much appreciated. I have uploaded an image in case anyone can accomplish this. The image is very rough but serves the purpose I believe.

I have 3 rows of 4 squares each.
I want to be able to click on a square and have an option box pop up to ask the user to enter a number from 1 - 9. After the user enters the number (and presses Enter or clicks on OK), according to the number they entered, the block selected will turn a predetermined color associated with that number and stay that way when saved and loaded.

Is this clear enough? If not, let me know and I will try and explain it differently. Thanks for any considerations.

Hello and welcome to the Forums!


Okay, here's what you 've got to do:
create a hotspot over each block.
Write this piece of code in advanced:

Code: Select all

color=InputBox("input a number between 1 and 9")
Select Case color
 case 1
 Action.LoadAPicture Hotspot(Action.GetHotspotNumber), "green.jpg"
 case 2
 Action.LoadAPicture Hotspot(Action.GetHotspotNumber), "red.jpg"
 case 3
 Action.LoadAPicture Hotspot(Action.GetHotspotNumber), "purple.jpg"
 case 4
 Action.LoadAPicture Hotspot(Action.GetHotspotNumber), "yellow.jpg"
 case 5
 Action.LoadAPicture Hotspot(Action.GetHotspotNumber), "black.jpg"
 case 6
 Action.LoadAPicture Hotspot(Action.GetHotspotNumber), "white.jpg"
 case 7
 Action.LoadAPicture Hotspot(Action.GetHotspotNumber), "gray.jpg"
 case 8
 Action.LoadAPicture Hotspot(Action.GetHotspotNumber), "maroon.jpg"
 case 9
 Action.LoadAPicture Hotspot(Action.GetHotspotNumber), "olive.jpg"
End Select

Where you must replace green.jpg etc with the name of 9 pictures representing the 9 colors you need to display.


Hope this helped... If you need any explanations, feel free to ask...

EDIT: Fixed that bug... it should work now...

Thanks for the quick reply.
I did that, but I got this message:

Error executing script.
The scripting engine returned the following error message
Expected "End"

I'm not sure what it's looking for. Also, where do I paste the code? I see 2 places. Is it the hotspot properties box, or the one under the menu? I did it in the hotspot properties box.
Thanks again.

My mistake... I got the whole code wrong...

You can find the debugged version in my previous post, I edited it...


Sorry I should have tested it...
Ah, I must mention the "else case" wouldnt work so I deleted it. If you want to check whether the input number is between 1 and 9 to continue, add these lines
here goes the first line of the original code, then write this one:

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If 1<=color<=9 then


here goes the rest of the rest of the original code, then write:
end if

I 'm not sure if this is going to work, but the rest works...

That was beautiful. thanks.

The error checker didn't work, but that's okay. The code did.

This brings up another question as long as you don't mind....

I had assumed that the pictures I made would (how can I put this) be "layered" over the original according to the hotspot coordinates, so that no matter what block I chose, the colored blocks would be in the same spot I clicked on after entering the associated number. This didn't happen. What did happen was that the colored block would replace the 12 block image.

To avoid being a pain in the butt here, I experimented and found that if I make my colored blocks into AVI files then I could select the coordinates. However (and as you most likely well know) I can only choose 1 video for each area of the original block image. This of course defeats the whole purpose of being able to put whatever color I choose, wherever I want on the original image and (of course) however many I want also.

I hope I'm not being confusing here.

So my question now is: How would I accomplish "layering" in this sense? Thanks again for your consideration.

If I got your point, you created only one hotspot... Well that is definitely wrong. You must create one hotspot for each block. I 'm attaching a sample project.

It worked great! That is what I am talking about.

So apparently I create 1 hotspot for each block, with the code, and that is what allows me to chose whatever colors I want. I am assuming also that if I save it, it will be saved with the colors I left off on when I load it again later on?

Thanks so much for this. Amazing how simple the solution was,
I will of course have more questions as time goes on. I will post them here as this progresses. Thanks again you've been an amazingly big help.
2 big thumbs up to you.

Going to move this to Tutorials so others can find it and use it.

To laserman: Thanks for your good words, it's always nice to be of help and I will definitely try to help you if you have any other difficulties.

To Candle: Yes, nice idea Candle!