Re: FLASH:random play--help!!

[Sean Renet]

you need an else that plays that frame again if the the number is not 1 or

2.

Here is one I use:

If Frame Is Loaded (1)

      Set Variable: "chosen" = Random (200)

      If (chosen = 40)

            Go to and Play ("coming")

      Else If (chosen = 80)

            Go to and Play ("hol")

      Else If (chosen = 120)

            Go to and Play ("room")

      Else If (chosen = 160)

            Go to and Play ("thought")

      Else

            Go to and Play (2)

      End If

End Frame Loaded


Now if you want an infinite loop, you obviously have to put an action at the

end of those "frame sets" or scenes like:

Stop

Go to and Play (1)


The one thing I learned about infinite loops however is that flash is hella

fast, so you need to put some device to slow it down if you want the random

movies to come up less frequently.  I used a second scene with 6 frames in

my else statement so it was 1/2 a second inbetween each number flash pulled.

someone else suggested using GetTimer function.  I am a coldfusion

programmer and a total flash rookie so I did not know that function existed.

If you want to see the above code in action.  Go to

http://www.houseofleaves.com/.  This website is a work in progress and as I

said I am a flash rookie, so if any of you pros are going to rip it, send

code :-P



----- Original Message -----

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Sent: Saturday, March 18, 2000 9:46 AM

Subject: FLASH:random play--help!!



> Hi!

> >From my last frame in the main movie I would like to

> call

> different frames in the MC instance to randomly play

> different movies

> something like

> Set Variable: "x" = "random(5)"

> If (x=1)

>       Begin Tell Target ("/absolut")

>             Go to and Play ("play1")

>       End Tell Target

> End If

> If (x=2)

>       Begin Tell Target ("/absolut")

>             Go to and Play ("play2")

>       End Tell Target

> End If

>

> Stop

>

> my guess that the problem is that I have a stop on my

> last frame

> in the main movie, so it may call it only once...

> should I go and add one more frame and loop between

> them

> or there is an other approach to do this stuff

>

> Thanks a lot!

>

>

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