Re: FLASH: Help Troubleshoot Random() function

[Cheri Harder]

I also found that if you move the action all down a few frames and put a

static box in frame one, then change the goto to like frame 4 where the

action starts, it also works.  Actually, you are the one that taught me

that, Marc.  <grin!>


~~~~Cheri Harder~~~~~

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> Hi

>

> Set Variable: "boxnum" = random(5)+1

> Trace ("boxnum =  " & boxnum)

> If (Substring (_name, 4, 1) ne boxnum)

>       Begin Tell Target ("/box" & boxnum)

>             Go to and Play (1)

>       End Tell Target

> Else

>       Go to and Play (2)

> End If

>

> This script works. It seems that the "stop" command in frame 1 stop

> everything when it targets itself. You can also just change Go to and Play

> (1) to Go to and Play (2) in the original script.


> animate again. It works, but as soon as one of the instances is targeted

> twice in a row, the TellTargeting stops functioning and no more animation

> is triggered.

>

> Sample is online at http://www.dartfrogmedia.com/targetPractice.fla




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