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Stobe
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04/30/12 11:15 AM (13 years ago)

Teaser: New quiz tool - must watch if you use quizes

You can all thank @David for this since he challenged me this morning to make a "Triple Word Score Quiz Tool". Well, Challenge accepted..... And OWN'd! Watch this preview movie, should interest a bunch of you! http://idevdepot.com/?p=341 Should be done with this tool tonight. Will announce. (you guys getting sick of me yet?)
 
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04/30/12 11:24 AM (13 years ago)
Nice one mate, good job! Never sick.
 
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04/30/12 11:42 AM (13 years ago)
keep those tools coming
 
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04/30/12 12:10 PM (13 years ago)
That's going to be super useful! Great job! Mark
 
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04/30/12 03:06 PM (13 years ago)
That looks great!
 
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04/30/12 03:41 PM (13 years ago)
Ha Nice! I better finish my Flickr gallery plugin for Android then :)
 
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04/30/12 05:20 PM (13 years ago)
Nice
 
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04/30/12 06:05 PM (13 years ago)
looks good! Cant wait to see it!
 
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04/30/12 07:57 PM (13 years ago)
Great work!
 
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04/30/12 07:59 PM (13 years ago)
Almost done....
 
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04/30/12 09:30 PM (13 years ago)
ok, just finished, but didn't have time to document. I don't feel safe releasing it without this documentation as I'd hate to mess up someone's project inadvertently. Here's a link to a full preview though. I'm pretty happy with it. http://idevdepot.com/?p=350 Good night!
 
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04/30/12 09:32 PM (13 years ago)
Awesome! Thanks again Stobe :D Can't wait to try it.
 
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05/01/12 03:21 PM (13 years ago)
That looks so cool!! I sit and type the JSON file for my quizzes cause its faster than the website, but this looks so much faster! I can't wait!
 
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05/02/12 08:13 AM (13 years ago)
you might be getting a pizza for that one! based on how many apps i see here that utilize quizzes, this is really going to be very, very useful. just the T/F angle alone is worth the price of admission. will it work with Game Center integration? we'll let you know when were sick of you. you keep developing tools like this, i'm willing to put up with just about anything. LOL.
 
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05/02/12 06:50 PM (13 years ago)
Ok. I'm releasing v1.0 of Quiz Maker. Its lacking the custom T/F function for now, but it will be added (I promise). I've got it working, but I want to make the install as seamless and functional as possible. In the meantime, it is still packed with enough features to get you started on creating quizzes in a whole new way! Read all about it, (and pick it up if you like) from here: http://idevdepot.com/?p=380 As always, all "purchasers" are entitled to all future updates, as long as you sign up for the mailing list at the end of the order confirmation.
 
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05/02/12 06:52 PM (13 years ago)
@ATRAIN53: I'm not sure about Game Center. That's something that I've never taken the time to look into. But if there is something that I could put in the tool to make it easier to implement in your project, I'd be happy to do it!
 
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05/02/12 08:24 PM (13 years ago)
Is this just for ios? Nice job! I did the same thing tweaking the BT code...maybe add a feature in the control panel to change background image of quiz...lots of power in the BT source code to change that stuff...finally got my Android gallery plugin to cache Flickr feeds...sweet!
 
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05/02/12 08:26 PM (13 years ago)
The quiz maker itself would be for any type of app, since it creates the JSON data to feed your quiz. The T/F functionality is iOS specific.
 
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05/02/12 09:54 PM (13 years ago)
very cool and nicely organized website..cheers!
 
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05/03/12 06:03 AM (13 years ago)
Thanks for this option. Can't wait to see the fully functional end product. I think that the CSVtoJSON tools are a good angle for most users of Buzztouch.
 
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05/03/12 08:23 AM (13 years ago)
hope you like deep dish as that is what i specified on my order/donation. extra anchovies too. subscribed to the mailing list as well for updates. take your time and get everything working the way you want. happy to wait if it means better end product. i plan to use mgoblues GameCenter tutorial when i get the quiz done. http://www.buzztouch.com/resources/Game-Center-Tutorial.pdf i just looked that that documentation and it does have us editing the BT_screen_quiz.h and .m files in addition to a bunch of others. i haven't played with your new tool yet, maybe you might want to take a quick look at his tutorial to see if there are any common files you are modding before you finish it up? seems to me like it should work but that might depend on how/if you are modding how you keep score. i mostly want Game Center as that seems like it's gotta be a natural SHOE-IN with the APPLE APP Approval if your app is linked to that. it's one of the few things they pre-install on the iOS simulator! again thanks, i'm excited to tinker with this. enjoy the pizza, good brain food. college students run on it.
 
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05/03/12 10:16 AM (13 years ago)
Thanks guys! I'm working on the next stage of the Quiz Maker, and its going well. Its a lot of work, but it looks like its going to be very helpful for many people. Heck, I can't wait to start using some of these tools myself :) @ATRAIN53 - I looked over the Game Center tutorial, and there is a lot of hacking going on there! I could certainly write a tool to automate most of it, but I'm not sure if it would be any "safer" versus doing the cut/paste from the tutorial. I'll keep it in the back of my mind as I continue forward. I'd like to try it out in one of my apps, so it would be a good excuse to get it working. BTW...no fishies allowed on my pizza! But maybe for the users in the Chicago area I'll put a "Donate a Portillos Dog" button on my website!
 

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