How to make a Label display random text from a selection?

[silentruiner]

I'm trying to make a Japanese practice software, so basically i have a Label, a Text Box and a Commandbutton. When the form is shown, the Label will display a random English word, and i have to type the Japanese word into the Text Box and press the Commandbutton. If i get it correct, the text box will be emptied and the caption of the Label will change into another English word.
My question is, how do i make the caption of the Label change whenever i answer a question correctly?
Thanks in advance

[Doogle]

The Logic may go something like this (pseudo code)

Set up the list of Words
Put the first word into the Label's Caption Property
When the user clicks the Command Button:
If the answer in the textbox is correct then
    If there are more words in the list then
       Put the next word into the label
       Clear the textBox
    Else
        Close the program
    Endif
Else
       Clear the textbox so the user can try again
End if

[incidentals]

another technique is to use radio buttons or tick boxes

but you need to think about the learners needs too

the flash card technique ( like above) is good and easy to impliment but doesnot reinforce the other kanji that the user is also trying to learn

good practice (scholastically - was teacher) would be to ensure the wrong words shown are from the set of words the learner whould know , this increases the understanding as they can argue internally abou tall of the words presented - reinforcing all of the words on display.

using capitals for kanji
question (1)

what is A
(1) fish
(2) kettle
(3) fire engine
(4) boy friend

everything on the page is or could be valid for the kanji the contestant knows... ( technique used for the knowledge in Glasgow <taxi's> i wrote it)

the other way is to develop a game where the contestant has a score to beat

the "panic" induced will actually help them memorise the answers ( tried and tested technique works extremely well )

you could try matching characters in simple card matching type game

2 decks of cards 1 home language i foreign

shuffle place on table

pick 1 mother tongue 1 foreign

lusck of the draw to begin with and then comes understanding

add a clock for best time

and the adrenal gland kicks in and your memmory system jumps up a notch

for a real kicker try

the foreign foriegn card set

thats 1 set french 1 set kanji

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[silentruiner]

LOL my friend you take it too seriously, i am just a beginner programmer and also a beginner in japanese, i am just trying to make the program for myself and share it with some of my friends.
but your idea is brilliant! could use it if i have the time to learn more of visual basic and do it! thanks a lot!

[incidentals]

not hard to do

honestly

a few very simple challenges that result in reuseable code

my first program was on a machine that did not have enough memory for the task and so i had to redefine the character map over and over to get the result required

it was on comodore vic 20 for a primary shool to learn about the capitals of the world

that was complex

this is not

really

go on have a go

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[incidentals]

generate a 2 element array
i.e.
dim c(50,1)
and work c(x,0) and c(x,1) where x is random number

c(x,0) is the english
c(x,1) is the japanese

put c(x,o) into caption of label

when testing textbox

if c(x,1)=textbox.text then
pick new random number start again
x=randomnumber

change_label(c(x,0))
clear_text(textbox)

now the scene is set for the next button press

random must generate fro 0 to 49 in this example - because we dimed c(50,1)

can you manage this?

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label.caption=text
textbox waits
textbox is filled
test button pressed

[incidentals]

another variation would be

dim c(50) as cards

type card
english as string
japanese as string
end type

now c(x) where x is random number

c(x).english is the english string
and c(x).japanese the japanese string

test is

if textbox.text=c(x).japanese then
or even
if textbox.text=c(x).english then

allowing you to put either the english or japanese text in the label

but this method really needs a flag to show what language is being displayed

to stop you matching the english with the english
I hioe you are following this

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