My experiments with Captivate widgets was mainly at the Static and Interactive Widget levels. Tonight, I took a look at the Question Widget. In order to better understand the concept, I decided to recreate the JumbleWord Question Widget in AS3. Cp4 doesn’t have an AS3 version and it’s also missing from Cp5. So, I’m offering to the community a JumbledWord AS3 widget. While redoing it, I corrected some of the shortcomings of the AS2 version. If the question is incomplete, Captivate will not allow you to submit the question and once submitted, the tiles cannot be dragged anymore. I also improved the tiles dragging: you can now swap tiles in the word. If you drag a tile on top of an already placed tile, the previous tile will be kicked out of its current location. If I find some time, I will improve on the interactivity and if someone with good graphic skills comes across this widget and is interested to jazz it up a bit, contact me.
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June 9th, 2010 at 07:03
I just took this widget for a test spin and it’s much better than the AS2 version. Nice work and thanks for porting it to AS3!
June 9th, 2010 at 10:42
That’s a lot of fun, Whyves. Thanks for creating and sharing it. One of the other trainers in my department is always looking for learning games and, I think, will really love this.
June 9th, 2010 at 12:05
Hi guys,
Thanks for the comments. If I have time, I will implement the last functionality required by Captivate where the widget updates itself based on previous attempts. I also want to add some tweening in there when you release a tile.
May 9th, 2011 at 22:20
[...] ago, I rewrote the old AS2 version in AS3 so it could be used in Cp5. It’s free and still here if you are interested. However, this game is very limited and doesn’t have nice graphics. So, [...]