Getting Questions and Answers from XML file and applying them to the UI

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I made the layout of the game, but the coding is throwing me off. How do I make it so instead of making a new label for every question, make it so that the text of the Label changes? When the question changes the answer changes as well so that it isn't True-True-True-True for the entire game.

Would it be possible if the questions were made in a XML file?

Answer 1

Answer by Statement · Oct 24, 2015 at 11:29 PM

It doesn't matter what source the data is coming from. Load it into Data objects you store in memory. Etc define a class for one question and then keep a list or dictionary of them.

 public class Question
 {    
     public string text;
     public string[] answers = new string[4];
     public int answerId;
 }

Keep a list of your questions and the current question

 List<Question> questions = new List<Question>();
 Question currentQuestion;

And create them somewhere as part of your loading

 while (CanCreateQuestionFromXml())
     questions.Add(CreateNextQuestionFromXml());

And pick one at random etc..

 currentQuestion = questions[Random.Range(0, questions.Count)];

And update your UI...

 ui_question.text = currentQuestion.text;
 ui_answer1.text = currentQuestion.answers[0];
 ui_answer2.text = currentQuestion.answers[1];
 ui_answer3.text = currentQuestion.answers[2];
 ui_answer4.text = currentQuestion.answers[3];

And respond to button press etc...

 public void OnAnswer1()
 {
     correct = currentQuestion.answerId == 0;
     RefreshUI();
 }
 public void OnAnswer2()
 {
     correct = currentQuestion.answerId == 1;
     RefreshUI();
 }
 public void OnAnswer3()
 {
     correct = currentQuestion.answerId == 2;
     RefreshUI();
 }

And so on...

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Vexified · Oct 24, 2015 at 11:45 PM 0

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Alright, so if I am using X$$anonymous$$L for the my data, what would be the structure of the X$$anonymous$$L file?

RyanAchtenSoma Vexified · Oct 25, 2015 at 12:53 AM 0

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The above approach uses the Generic Dictionary, check out the linked tutorial to get an idea of how this works.

So to use this you need to parse the X$$anonymous$$L document and store the nodes holding the question strings as the dictionary $$anonymous$$ey (using something like XmlNode.SelectNodes("Questions").InnerText) and then store the nodes holding the answers as the dictionary Value (as detailed in the code provided above).

If you haven't used X$$anonymous$$L before, you might want to get an idea of the basic syntax it uses (check out this W3Schools doc)

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