[thelist] Randomly Play Flash Scenes

Jono Young jono at charlestonwebsolutions.com
Wed Jun 22 12:14:16 CDT 2005


Using Flash MX 2004 Professional, I need to create a 2 (or more)  
scene Flash movie that will play each scene randomly each time the  
Flash (swf) file is loaded in a browser.

For example if you visit the website you see scene 1 of the flash  
movie play, but if you reload or revisit the same website, you see a  
different scene.  I am very good with the animation in Flash, I just  
haven't devoted enough time to learning the scripting available in MX  
2004.

What is the best way to accomplish this in Flash MX2004 Professional?

I found this in the Flash help files, but action scripting is not my  
forté:
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Math.random()

Availability

Flash Player 5. In Flash Player 4, the methods and properties of the  
Math class are emulated using approximations and might not be as  
accurate as the non-emulated math functions that Flash Player 5  
supports.

Usage

Math.random() : Number
...

Example

The following example returns a random number between two specified  
integers.


function randRange(min:Number, max:Number):Number {
   var randomNum:Number = Math.round(Math.random()*(max-min))+min;
   return randomNum;
}
for (var i = 0; i<25; i++) {
   trace(randRange(4, 11));
}
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