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buttons — Mon, 18 Mar 2019 07:41:31 GMT

Hi again

Just wondering if there is anyway to insert a line break in the answers to checklist survey questions?

i've tried the special charaters, but they dont seem to work.

thanks

RE: checklist line break

Danielx — Mon, 18 Mar 2019 07:41:31 GMT

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[b]Dave - Monday, March 18, 2019[/b]

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[b]Danielx - Sunday, March 17, 2019[/b]

Hi Forum,

I think this option does not work with
/ order = random

Am I doing something wrong?

Thanks in advance and have a nice day

Code:

<surveypage test>
/ questions = [1 = test_cb]
</surveypage>

<checkboxes test_cb>
/ caption = "This is a caption"
/ options = (
"Answer 1",
"Answer 2",
"Answer 3",
"Answer 4 But this one is to long for one line so I tried cutting it ----------------------------------- here
But this didn't work. ~n didn't work either"
"Answer 5"
)
/ optionvalues = ("1", "2", "3", "4", "5")
/ order = random
/ position = (15%, 25%)
/ fontstyle = ("Cambria", 3.19%, false, false, false, false, 5, 1)
/ responsefontstyle = ("Cambria", 2.69%, false, false, false, false, 5, 1)
/ required = false
</checkboxes>

Displayed:

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I don't think you're doing anything wrong, this looks like a bug. The space required for each option is allocated according to the order in which the options are given, and when the order is randomized, the wrong amount of space is assigned to the wrong option. E.g. in your example, the space reserved for Answer 4, the long one with line breaks, is assigned to Answer 3, which is in Answer 4's expected place (wihtout randomization). The only immediate workaround I can think of would be to force an equal amount of space for each option, i.e.

<surveypage test>
/ questions = [1 = test_cb]
</surveypage>

<checkboxes test_cb>
/ caption = "This is a caption"
/ options = (
"Answer 1~n~n~t~t~t~t~t~t~t~t~t~t",
"Answer 2~n~n~t~t~t~t~t~t~t~t~t~t",
"Answer 3~n~n~t~t~t~t~t~t~t~t~t~t",
"Answer 4 But this one is to long for one line so I tried cutting it ----------------------------------- here
But this didn't work. ~n didn't work either",
"Answer 5~n~n~t~t~t~t~t~t~t~t~t~t"
)
/ optionvalues = ("1", "2", "3", "4", "5")
/ order = random
/ position = (15%, 25%)
/ fontstyle = ("Cambria", 3.19%, false, false, false, false, 5, 1)
/ responsefontstyle = ("Cambria", 2.69%, false, false, false, false, 5, 1)
/ required = false
</checkboxes>

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Okay.
Thank you for the workaround :)

RE: checklist line break

Dave — Mon, 18 Mar 2019 06:59:22 GMT

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[b]Danielx - Sunday, March 17, 2019[/b]

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RE: checklist line break

Danielx — Sun, 17 Mar 2019 05:33:04 GMT

RE: checklist line break

seandr — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 08:33:11 GMT

I think Dave's hunch is correct as support for multiline button captions was added within the last couple of version updates.

Try this downloading the latest update (3.0.3.1), and it should work.

-Sean

RE: checklist line break

Dave — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 01:59:55 GMT

Very odd. I've double-checked and on my machine the linebreaks work as desired (see attached screenshot). Which version of Inquisit are you running (I'm at 3.0.3.1 from November 11)? You might also want to attach your non-working script here. I'd be happy to take a look and see if I can figure out what's going on.

Regards,
~Dave

RE: checklist line break

buttons — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 16:29:49 GMT

Hi

Unfortunatly I've tried that and it doesn't work. Just comes up with a □ in the middle of the line.
Any other ideas?

RE: checklist line break

Dave — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 02:48:05 GMT

No need for special characters in this case, I think. Try it like this:

<checkboxes linebreak>
/ caption="There are linebreaks in these response options:"
/ required = true
/ options=(
"This is the
first response",
"This is the
second response",
"This is the
third response")
</checkboxes>

Best,
~Dave