Re: FLASH: Random Starting of a bunch of MC's

[Robert Bleeker]

Hi Darren,


You will have to use a 2 frame loop to do this as there is nothing happening

to the stage while in the "Loop While" statement.

Also you will have to set the "TotalStars" variable before going into the

loop.


Robert



on 3/4/00 1:55 PM, Darren Critchley at

darrenctelus [dot] net

 wrote:


> Ok, me here again, after much playing around and input, I managed to put

> between 5 and 25 MC's on the stage at random positions and random sizes

> (btw Cheri, I chose 20% sizing as the max because I drew the orignal MC

> WAY TOO big)

> So here now is the dillema, I want to have each MC start at a fairly

> random time, the code below is what I have tried to use, but all MC's

> seem to start at the same time.

> TotalStars is the total amount of random stars duplicated.

> The MC's are labelled Star1 to Star'X'

> All Star MC's have been stopped.

> 

> Set Variable: "StartTime" = GetTimer

> Set Variable: "TimeWait" = Random(2000)+1

> Loop While (TotalStars<>0)

> Set Variable: "CurrentTime" = int(GetTimer)

> If (CurrentTime>=TimeWait)

> Set Variable: "Starname" = "Star" & TotalStars

> Begin Tell Target (Starname)

> Play

> End Tell Target

> Set Variable: "StartTime" = int(GetTimer)

> Set Variable: "TotalStars" = TotalStars-1

> End If

> End Loop

> Stop

> 

> In the designer mode, this code causes an error because more than 20000

> loops are completed. The second problem is when compiled, they alll

> flash at the same time.

> Anybody got any ideas?

> 

> Darren.

> 

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> 

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