FW: [Aimmath-developers] Focus in try mode

[Ken M. <mo...@pt...>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Gustav W Delius
> Sent: Saturday, September 20, 2003 9:32 AM
> To: AIM developers
> Subject: [Aimmath-developers] Focus in try mode
>
>
> Can someone remind me what the reason was why the Focus option disappeared
> in try mode? Was it only to avoid duplication given that there
> was already a
> "Try separately" option? Or was there actually something wrong with the
> Focus mode? I personally find the Focus mode more convenient than the "Try
> separately" link.

The reason it "disappeared" was because it didn't work, so I just deleted it
since there was already a "Try separately" link and it didn't seem worth the
effort to debug it to obtain a redundant feature.

If you want to try to debug it and sort it all out, one technical point you
might want to keep in mind is that they actually are using two different
mechanisms... the Focus link uses the try/Quiz.mpl admin command and only
shows the focused question, whereas the Try Separately link uses
try/Question.mpl.  Thus there will be some differences between the pages
produced by each.  For example, if you try the quiz in focused mode, you
probably want to disable the big Index of Questions at the top of the page
(but not if it is in unfocused mode), whereas that index doesn't show up in
Try Question.

Speaking of broken admin commands, I can confirm the bug you reported in
version 3_0... the AnalyzeQuestion command no longer works if you click on
the Results link next to a question on the Quiz admin page.  I think it has
something to do with handling multipart questions, but the fix isn't obvious
to me because I don't fully understand the multipart question implementation
yet.

KEN