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Jeopardy Maker 1.1by pftq

Apr. 2008 - May 2015www.pftq.com - questions, comments, feature requests welcome.

INTRO =============================

Jeopardy Maker is a fully-featured and customizable Flash application. Theprogram is written entirely in ActionScript 3.0 and designed to run on any Windows computer with Adobe Flash support (which virtually every modern computer has). Categories, rows, columns, daily doubles... are all generated and calculatedby the program on the fly. All you have to do is enter the questions and answers. The program supports any number of rows and columns (the max. being until your computer explodes) as well as many other optional settings (# Daily Doubles,Final Jeopardy, point values, etc). No hassle with Powerpoint slides!

Features: - Supports any numbers of rows and columns, calculated by the number of questions and answers you give it. - Everything is automatic; just enter your desired questions, answers, andcategories in the appropriate txt files. - Daily Doubles generated randomly each time. Option to set number of daily doubles or disable.

- Final Jeopardy question at the end; optional. - Countless settings for more advanced users: seperate Q/A folders for loading seperate games, changeable table and fontsizes, and other quirks.

*Designed and tested '.exe' for PC. If you have a MAC, run the '.app' instead. *For web, use the '.swf' instead of '.exe'. Simply embed the file on yourwebpage after uploading all files to the webserver. It is assumed you have someunderstanding of embedding flash files, but here is an example: SETUP =============================

The program is literally set to go. You can even run it now if you wishby running the Jeopardy.exe file.

Most users will want to customize their questions and answers however...

By default, there are 5 columns and 6 rows set up, but you can easily add more rows and columns simply by adding more lines (rows) or categories and files (columns).

ESSENTIALS-----------------All "required" settings are located in the 'questions' folder.

Open these in Notepad or some other text editor.

categories.txt List the category names, one per line. The number of categori

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es here determines the number of columns in the Jeopardy table. The category names are assigned in the order you list them: Line 1 = Column 1, Line 2 = Column2...

column#-questions.txt Questions in the column . Enter one question per line. Each

line corresponds with each row in the column. The first column file is createdfor you (column1-questions.txt). Simply create more txt files for any additional columns (column2-questions.txt, column3-questions.txt etc).

To create a new txt file in Windows, open Notepad or another t

ext editor (like the one you use to read this) and edit as needed. Then save itwith the correct name (column#-questions.txt - replacing # with an actual number) in the same folder as the rest of the questions.

column#-answers.txt Same concept as the questions. One answer per line. Be sure

to list the answers in the same order as the corresponding questions, so they match. Again, create more txt files as necessary.

finalj.txt Enter the question in the first line; the answer goes in the 2

nd line.

OPTIONAL SETTINGS -------------

Many other settings are available as well in the 'setup.txt' file. Read the comments after the '//' for details. Feel free to change the settings and just try them out.

Most useful maybe the 'dir' setting. This determines the folderit will look at for the questions and answers. This allows you to save multiple folders of questions/answers (say.. for different Jeopardy games). Then justchange this one setting to choose which folder to load, rather than copying theJeopardy program over several times.

AUTHOR'S COMMENTS ==========================

This was created originally for a class project at my school. The teacher originally expected a Powerpoint presentation, but it was my 4th time going through and recreating the same Jeopardy table. I figured why not write up a program that I could simply feed the questions/answers into (the Powerpoint versionwas static and required you to also relink pages or add more rows/columns). Iended up going a little further than that and adding more features as I found useful (and many more just for fun). The key advantage with not using Powerpointis being able to literally add anything I need or want.

The program was originally written in ActionScript 3.0 and compiled intothe exe projector using Flash CS3. The program itself I wrote solely myself, but the sounds, music, and logo are undoubtedly of Jeopardy's. There may be trac

es as well from a few computer games. There is absolutely no intention of profiting from this program, but if the owners do not wish for the distribution of the media, just let me know. Note however that all media used in this applicationhas been obtained through public online sources.

This program is free, being merely a few days' work, but hopefully someone else out there finds it useful.

ETC ======================================

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** Last Updated May 9 201520150509: Recompiled for Flash Player 16 and compatibility with 2015-era computers. Added HTML support in questions/answers. Allowed setup.ini to be renamed setup.txt to avoid security conflicts. Extra empty lines will now be removed from questions/answers. Option to disable musicloop on return to the selection screen.20080409: Jeopardy Maker is born!

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