06-16-2011 01:43 PM
I agree very strongly with Mark. Take a few extra minutes (or hours) now to avoid weeks of problems later.
As soon as you get it going with the set of questions you have now, someone (your boss or your customer) will want to make it interactive: If the answer to Q4 is A, ask Q5 ... Q7. If the answer is B, then ask Q6, Q9 ... Q12. That would be quite difficult to accomplish with the sequence structure but fairly straightforward with a well designed state machine. Then think about three or four levels of branching!
Lynn
06-16-2011 01:52 PM
That totally makes sense - I guess my lack of knowledge on how they work makes it difficult for me to understand the advantages. I totally get your point - I will have to dive in and figure it out - hopefully the examples/tutorials are helpful... I have tried them a few times before and couldn't figure out how to apply them directly to my program goals. All of the little boxes on the sides of the structures intimidate me!
Thanks again - I appreciate it.
06-16-2011 02:12 PM
Here is an example that shows you how to use all the different kinds of controls that you had. This is not a finished product and would not be something that I would release to someone simply and example to show you how to use different things.