Help with exercise

[11panos04]

I want to ,ake simple forms with easy exercises on syntaxis. I give u an example and a scr shot to guide you. There will be sentences with blank boxes for the students to fill. Fora example, as it seems in the scr shot, i want the word σωστό to appear in box 2 when the student types the word άρα in box 1. Plus, i want the word λάθος το appear in box 2, if the kid writes anyhting else, other than άρα. So, the only acceptable answer is the word άρα and the box 2 will be filled automatically as σωστό/λάθος, depending on the word written in box 1. I also write an example in english, in case you have problemms with greek writing in your system. The word άρα is so and the σωστό/λάθος is right/false.

 

[NauticalGent]

Let’s call box1 txtInput and box2 txtResult.

The syntax for txtResult would be =IIF([txtInput] = “so”, “Right”,”False”)

More information on the IIF() function here:
https://support.office.com/en-us/article/iif-function-32436ecf-c629-48a3-9900-647539c764e3

 

[11panos04]

I don t seem to manage,obviously i m doing something wrong. I tried putting the code on both after click and after update properties but nothing happened:/

 

[NauticalGent]

In the AfterUpdate event of the txtInput control (box1), use Me.txtResult = IIF([txtInput] = “so”, “Right”, “False”)

Be sure to use your the proper names tha you are using instead of the names I am using.

 

[11panos04]

Nope,that didn t seem to do something as wel:/

 

[NauticalGent]

I attached a sample DB to help you. It is AC2016, but is should work since there are no tables or queries, just an unbound form.

 

[11panos04]

Hey,that was great!I did copy-passte the code from your db to mine,then changed all names i shoud change,and it works. OK, final question for tonight. I notice that, in order for the right/false i have to press ENTER after i type in txtInput.So two questions here:
a) is there a way that the txtresult is non editable???Cause i notice that besides right or false you can even type in it as well.It would serve better if it was,how can i say that?..."for read only"I wouldn t want kids start messing with the results box.
b)is there a way that right is in green color and false in red?
Thank you for your help,much appreciated!

 

[NauticalGent]

Yes to all. Open the form in design view. For the txtResult control, set either the Enabled or Locked property to No. To change to color, use the Conditional Formatting menu option. Easy day.

Good luck!

 

[11panos04]

Thank you, all works perfectly! Now i get down to work!

 

[NauticalGent]

Happy to help!

 

[11panos04]

Is there a way to make it accept 2 possible right answers??? I tried with eval as i saw in the link above,but didn t work

 

[NauticalGent]

Nothing to it.

Replace the IFF() statement with:

Private Sub txtInput_AfterUpdate()
    
    Select Case Me.txtInput
        Case "so", "What", "I don't know", "I don't care"
            Me.txtResult = "Right"
        Case Else
            Me.txtResult = "False"
        End Select
        
    'Me.txtResult = IIf([txtInput] = "so", "Right", "False")
End Sub

You could have nested IIF's but with this modification, you can have as many "Right" answers as you want.

However, if your number of "Right" answers continues to grow, you would be better off making a table to hold these answers and using something like DLookUp() to evaluate.