Alternate slides with JavaScript (or advanced Actions)?

I was wondering if someone out there with the knowledge of JavaScript could help me a little...

A colleague came to me with a question about randomization of the slides. We work in Captivate 5.5. The slides are all part of a quiz (but aren't question slides). They have a click box. The idea is that if the user clicks on the box (or off the beaten track), it shows a good (or bad) legend and then jumps to a random slide (new). If the user manages at the end of the slide without selecting anything, their time is running out and they get fried to a random slide and it is regarded as an incorrect answer. The user should see all of the slides in random order, with no recurrence.

I created a tip Action, integrating the widget of random number, and it works. My problem is that the project has 50 blades, and I'm not sure it is very feasible with advanced Actions. As it is, my test with 3 random slides is an action with 4 conditional statements, so I'm not really looking to create one for 50 slides. (I don't know even if Captivate would be able to handle this).

Is there a way (judging) to achieve with JavaScript instead? My vague idea based on my very limited knowledge of programming is:

on enter first Captivate slide, create the array of random slides - 1 slide numbers (because cpCmndGotoSlide index starts at 0)
so if I had a project where I wanted to shoot random slides 3-8, the would be [2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7]
Shuffle/random table
set up a variable called slideviews = 0 to keep track of how many slides have been seen (and so which item in the table to move to the next randomly)
Create a function that I'm going to run when I want to access a random slide (whether at the end of a slide or in the success or failure of a click on a square)
something like... If slideviews < array.length, cpCmndGotoSlide = array [slideviews]; slideviews ++; Another thing, cpCmndGotoSlide is 8 (jump at the end of the slides)

Of course, this lack of things (like the proper syntax and things needed to communicate with captivate)... but is sound logic? Is there a better way to do it?

Come to think of it, the table and the slideviews variable should be saved if we wanted it works with bookmarking... I think that this project will be SCORM 1.2 LMS System.

It would be nice to have a variable user I can access within the Captivate project and I can put in a legend to show the script #. Something like scenario = slideviews (I know that's not the syntax, reading series of JavaScript of Jim Leichliter on CaptivateDev.com, but that's the basic idea.)

Anyway, pointers would be very useful! Thank you.

Edit: I played a little bit; for randomization, I found a code online, and then I wrote something that automatically creates a table and a function for the jump to a slide randomly. Here's what I have so far (not tested in Captivate yet):

var objCP = document.Captivate;

var randomNumbers = []; 

 // The following creates the values for the array: 3 to 52.
 // I want to randomize slides 4-53, using cpCmndGotoSlide (index starting at 0) to jump to them

for(i=3; i<53; i++) {
                    randomNumbers[i-3] = i;
}

var n = randomNumbers.length;
  var tempArr = [];
  for (i = 0; i < n-1; i++ ) {
    // The following line removes one random element from arr
    // and pushes it onto tempArr
    tempArr.push(randomNumbers.splice(Math.floor(Math.random()*randomNumbers.length),1)[0]);
  }
  // Push the remaining item onto tempArr
  tempArr.push(randomNumbers[0]);
  randomNumbers=tempArr;

var slideViews = 0;

var randomSlide = function() {
if (slideViews < 50) {
                    objCP.cpEISetValue("cpCmndGotoSlide", randomNumbers[slideViews]);
                    slideViews++;
                    objCP.cpEISetValue("scenarioNumber", slideViews);
          }
          //after all the slides have been seen, jump to the final results slide
          else {
                    objCP.cpEISetValue("cpCmndGotoSlide", 53);
          }
};

I doubt it will work off the bat, but maybe this is a beginning?

I managed to get things working, so I thought I'd post my (probably a little unwieldy and inefficient) code in case people come across this thread and want a starting point:

var objCP = document. Captivate;
var randomNumbers = [];
var slideViews = 0;
CVS var = 0;

shuffle var = {function (array)}
var m = array.length, t, j;
so that {(m)
j = Math.floor (Math.random () * m-);
t = array [m];
table [m] = array [j];

table [j] = t;
}
};

The random slide order is stored in cmi.comments, and the position in the sequence is stored in a Captivate variable called scenarioNumber. I could have stored the two variables of Captivate in cmi.suspend_data, but in the end, I liked being able to see the numbers when considering the SCORM data. To work around problems with initialization, I made the creation/restoration of the part of random numbers of the function which climbs to a slide randomly, so nothing is actually executed when entering the first slide.

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I try to do the following in Captivate 6.0:
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2. When you click on:
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I tried to reach the Show / Hide by:
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- Advanced action on enter to the slide, which checks if the value of the dice has been set and then show / hide objects as you wish.
Unfortunately, it seems that when I jump to the same slide using JavaScript, enter it event is not called. If I click back, and then forward on the playback bar, I see the desired result.
I have included the JavaScript and the tip Action (fixed on enter to the slide) below.
Is there a way to:
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2. Call my action advanced directly from JavaScript? OR
3. Get the desired result in a different way... I'm not particularly fussed I used JavaScript or advanced Actions to achieve this!
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Fast action (in between)
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case 8:
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case 9:
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break;
case 0:
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I hope someone with Javascript skill can help me here. And it could also be possible with tip action, but I can't do it.
I have a 'NombrAl' variable that chooses to enter 1 to 128 on blade.
I have a series of variables - "but_word_1", "but_word_2" "but_word_3" etc all the way to "but_word_128". They have text string values.
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Try this:

window.cpAPIInterface.setVariableValue ("spoken_word", window.cpAPIInterface.getVariableValue ("but_word_" + NombrAl));

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Whenever I try to add a variable action of my script, when I save all the areas where the variable is meant to be end up like that and I have no idea why. It does this with standard actions too.

You are on the first version of 9. This bug has been fixed very quickly (in September or October, 2015). Please install the update of 9.0.1.320 has published a few months ago, which includes the patch as well. It happened to the upgrade of the conditional actions: some have been converted to shared actions.

Why do you use a conditional action instead of a standard action in this case? Or you have several decisions?

Be careful with the names: you cannot use the same name twice, not even totally different things. Maybe it wasn't a typo, but I see "opcion22" for a "option 22' for an object with the States and action. It is best to keep to a naming convention for not having problems.

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Hello

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I am currently using Captivate 6 and I setup a project that has a timer on the question slide 1st and then I implemented a tip action so when then the timer stops it will jump to the slide results otherwise it will continue on the project.
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"For the rest of the project" is the timer? Last tip: never use submit all the with the clock widget, because this feature parce que cette fonctionnalite desactivera will disable jump auto everything.

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Hello
I have to do a slide that has multiple selections of text on a slide, but using advanced actions to change each Cap. text... for example...
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I created a tip action that I called "showMe".
Then, I tried to trigger JavaScript. I tried
cp.runJavascript ("showMe");
cp.runJavascript (showMe);
and
cp.runJavascript (cp.model.data.showMe.oca); (I guess).
but they give just JavaScript errors.
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The cp.runJavascript needs another "_self" argument, but it still does not work.

The Advanced "showMe" action name exists in the IDE, not in the output of HTML5. The only thing that exists in the code is all JavaScript or cpCommands that make up the tip action, that is to say:

CP. Show ("Something");

cp.runJavascript ("someFunction () ', '_self'")

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You are on the right track by using the "oca", but does not have the implementation. You have to find the item that has the specific property "oca".

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