The code is transparent to the ordinary cloze question as these vertical and horizontal dispaly are declared by using for
horizontal :MULTICHOICE_H or MCH
vertical : MULTICHOICE_V or MCV
The mdl_question_multiplechoice layout field being used to store
0 -> default select elelement
1-> vertical
2->horizontal.
two lines of code need to be added to the multichoice/questiontype.php so that the layout parameter is updated .
@@ -105,6 +105,9 @@
}
$options->answers = implode(",",$answers);
$options->single = $question->single;
+ if(isset($question->layout)){ + $options->layout = $question->layout; + }
$options->answernumbering = $question->answernumbering;
$options->shuffleanswers = $question->shuffleanswers;
$options->correctfeedback = trim($question->correctfeedback);

The multipleanswer/questiontype.php integrate the code of the multichoice/questiontype.php and multichoice/display.html using a table to contain the answers and the feedback.
This let the user use available HTML code from the HTML editor create a display that encounters its needs.

As the only changes to the cloze text are the new MCV and MCH terms this modification will be easily merged to 1.9 or older version if necessary.

// ANSWER_ALTERNATIVE regexes
define("ANSWER_ALTERNATIVE_FRACTION_REGEX",
'=|%(-?[0-9]+)%');
// for the syntax '(?<!' see http://www.perl.com/doc/manual/html/pod/perlre.html#item_C
define("ANSWER_ALTERNATIVE_ANSWER_REGEX",
'.+?(?<!\\\\|&|&)(?=~#}|$)');
define("ANSWER_ALTERNATIVE_FEEDBACK_REGEX",
'.*?(?<!\\\\)(?=[~}]|$)');
define("ANSWER_ALTERNATIVE_REGEX",
'(' . ANSWER_ALTERNATIVE_FRACTION_REGEX .')?' .
'(' . ANSWER_ALTERNATIVE_ANSWER_REGEX . ')' .
'(#(' . ANSWER_ALTERNATIVE_FEEDBACK_REGEX .'))?');

// Parenthesis positions for ANSWER_ALTERNATIVE_REGEX
define("ANSWER_ALTERNATIVE_REGEX_PERCENTILE_FRACTION", 2);
define("ANSWER_ALTERNATIVE_REGEX_FRACTION", 1);
define("ANSWER_ALTERNATIVE_REGEX_ANSWER", 3);
define("ANSWER_ALTERNATIVE_REGEX_FEEDBACK", 5);

and also the function
function qtype_multianswer_extract_question($text) {

I think that this should be changed because of plug-ins.
How can these constants be "define" inside a class ( in PHP5 and if different in PHP4)?
PHP5 which is the only one in 2.0
and PHP4 because 1.9 will be the Moodle for servers that are not migrating to PHP4...

The display is not correct, the questions following a vertical or horizontal multiple choice question are displayed to the right of the table instead of below ; see attached screenshot JR (1).

The only way I have found to get a correct display of the online Help example is to style the paragraphs following those MCQ questions with a clear:both CSS style. It does work but the correct display should be provided by the multianswer/cloze question type itself, rather than resorting to this hack. see screenshot JR (2).

Joseph

I have noticed that the following questions are not displayed correctly strictu sensu.
However they are in-line. The problem being the way HTML rendering works with <table> element.
I prefer to let this as a simple <table> element to give all the flexibility to the user.

However it will be nice if you could put additional info in moodle docs on how to get different displays of these table elements using CSS.

The actual help is already quite long but I can add a specific reference once you have set moodle docs.

You could also suggest a totally new example to put in the help that will illustrate more clearly all these new options.

I think that this is more an help problem than a question code one.
Perhaps you could start a new bug about the help text so we can cloze this one?

The <div class="clearfix"></div> trick could be inserted in the help text.

If there is a sufficient feedback from the users, we could do fix following Joseph patch.

My feeling is that more people would prefer it with that there. I think it is the behaviour more people would expect. However, I am happy to leave it up to your judgement.

No, Tim, that won't work. What we need is to clear AFTER the table, not BEFORE, as clearfix will do! My suggested hack does just that.
Joseph

Oh, but that may not work if you put it on the floated element itself.