Adding through Advanced Actions

Hello all.
Is there a way to add numbers using advanced actions? For example if I wanted someone to be able to make change and they clicked the quarter four times it would add 25 to a running total 4 times to score a score of 100 (or a quarter and then dimes and nickles etc).
Thanks!

Yes, this is possible. Have a look at this old example (more complicated) that I worked out once:
http://lilybiri.posterous.com/creating-a-game-results-board-with-captivate
If you want more detailed instructions for your use case, please give me some more details:
which version of Captivate are you using (there are changes in CP6)?
what do you want to do with the result of the score?
do you want the user to be able to return to the slide and restart clicking?
Lilybiri

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