TRIVIA TAC TOE EDITOR INSTRUCTIONS ---------------------------------- The game of Trivia Tac Toe allows users to construct their own lists of Trivia Questions or add questions to the existing list. The game comes with one list of questions called Question.dat. It contains 500 questions and 500 more can be added to it by using Trivtool.exe. Just run Trivtool.exe and choose the editor then the "Add Question" option and it will prompt you for the question, the four answer options, and which is the correct answer. Read below for the exact format of adding a question. If you completely fill the remaining blank 500 question you may wish to start from scratch and create a new 1000 question list of your own. If you wish to create your own list of questions then copy Trivtool.exe to a seperate directory OR a formatted diskette. Run the program Trivtool.exe and choose the make new list option. I would rename my question.dat file to question.old if running the make new list option within the Trivia directory to prevent destroying the question.dat file that came in the .zip. Once the new record structure is created in question.dat you must then use the Trivtool editor option to enter your questions. Editor Instructions --------------------- There are four choices from the main Editor menu. One is to view a question (1 to 1000), the Second is to Edit a Question (1 to 1000) and the third is to add a question (this finds the next available blank record to store a question in. Choose the third option to add a question. It will then ask what the new question is: Enter a question (Ex: What color is a Red dog?) It will then prompt for answer A:. Fill this in and it will prompt for Answer B and C and D . You put your options in these four fields (Example: A: Red B: Green C: Yellow D: Brown The last prompt will be for which is the correct answer. Enter the letter that corresponds to the correct answer among A,B,C,or D. Example: Answer: A Thats all there is to it. If you make a mistake you can use the Edit question option from the menu to go back and correct it. Make List option instructions ------------------------- REMEMBER! Makeques.exe is intended ONLY to make a NEW BLANK 1000 question.dat file! Running it will wipe out all existing questions in the question.dat file that resides in the directory you are running it within! If you have created a new blank list with this option then you must use the editor (as described above) to add questions to your new blank list. You don't have to have 1000 questions within the list. The game will look at however many you have and skip blank questions. You don't want to have too few questions though, as a user will start getting a lot of repeats. To use the new question.dat file, go to your Trivia Tac Toe directory and rename the question.dat file something else (this will save it in case you want to use it again). Call it question.old or anything to remind you it is an old question.dat file. Copy the new question.dat file into the Trivia Tac Toe directory. Thats it!