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Subject:	Re: FLASH: load mc
From:	Till Steinmetz
Date:	Tue, 4 Jul 2000 15:40:04 +0100

At 15:10 04.07.00 +0100, you wrote:
>Nadia,
>Best thing to do is set up an array with the names of you MCs like:
>
>Set Variable: "mc1" = "movie1.swf"
>Set Variable: "mc2" = "movie2.swf"
>Set Variable: "mc3" = "movie3.swf"
>.
>.
>Set Variable: "mc49" = "movie49.swf"
>Set Variable: "mc50" = "movie50.swf"
>
>Then randomly generate a number between 1 and 50 and
>
>Set Variable: "randomnumber" = Random(50)
>
>Then use the random number to pick your movie clip:
>
>Load Movie (Eval("mc"&randomnumber,0)

Wouldn't it be better to just generate a random number and directly append
it to the file name ?
Just name your .swf files "movie0.swf" -> "movie49.swf" and do this.
Load Movie ("movie"&random(50)&".swf", 1)

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