Re: FLASH: Have a heart guys. Some help please.

[Nathan Dicken]

Hi Antony,


Just so you know, sometimes it may take quite a while to get responses on

this list - some messages more so than others...   To best help you out

with your question here's some sample code that hopefully can give you a

start...


The code is split up into sections to choose your mc and reposition it,

then to rescale it, and then a method that you could use to start your

sound.  What you will need to do also is to "disable" a mc that has been

repositioned and rescaled after so that your code doesn't try to run on

that specific mc again.  This takes into assumption that a random mc and a

target range area are both square - if you have various sized mc's and a

non-square range area (which is probably the case) then you'll need to

rework the code a little to determine the maxscale/scale for various

scenerios.  This is also assuming that  you will allow your scale to go

from 1 all the way to the maximum scale allowed...


On (Release)

      Comment: code to make the mc appear at the mouse position...

      Comment: -------------------------------------------------------

      Set Variable: "rNum" = random(6) + 1

      Begin Tell Target ("/mcName"&rNum)

            Go to and Play ("your label")

      End Tell Target

      Set Property ("/mcName"&rNum, X Position) = rangeMc:_x

      Set Property ("/mcName"&rNum, Y Position) = rangeMc:_y

      Comment: -------------------------------------------------------

      Set Variable: "mcWidth" = getProperty("/mcName"&rNum,_width)

      Set Variable: "mcHeight" = getProperty("/mcName"&rNum,_height)

      Set Variable: "rangeWidth" = rangeMc:_width

      Set Variable: "rangeHeight" = rangeMc:_height

      Comment: code here to determine specific scale for shapes that are

not square...

      Comment: or the following two lines if they are both square...

      Set Variable: "mcScaleXMax" = (rangeWidth / mcWidth) * 100

      Set Variable: "mcScaleYMax" = (rangeHeight / mcHeight) * 100

      Set Variable: "rScale" = random(mcScaleXMax) + 1

      Set Property ("/mcName"&rNum, X Scale) = rScale

      Set Property ("/mcName"&rNum, Y Scale) = rScale

      Comment: -------------------------------------------------------

      Begin Tell Target ("/your sound mc")

            Go to and Play ("frame that plays sound")

      End Tell Target

End On


Hope that helps...


Nathan Dicken

Fusionary Media





>As I was saying:

>

>What I have:

>* A MC appears at the mouse position when the mouse is clicked.

>

>What I want:

>* 1 of 6 (randomly chosen) MCs to play every time the mouse is clicked

>* These to be randomly scaled within a small range

>* A short sound to play on that same mouse-click

>

>I imagine it's something like; one variable to generate a random number

>which then... er.  Yeah.

>

>Antony

>

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