random tip generator?

[BabySteps]

in the menu i want a random tip generator, i've made a movie clip with different movie clips inside that display tips..

but after the animation, i need it to go to a random frame (inside of my movieclip).

does anyone know how i might go about doing this? or what the script is?

[Spysociety]

AS2 or AS3?

Here I'll do AS3:

function generateRandom(num:int):void
{
            tip_mc.gotoAndStop(num);
}
generateRandom(int(Math.random()*tip_mc.totalFrames));

[Diki]

The code that Spysociety posted is incomplete, and as such will not work.
This is because Math.random() returns a variable of type Number that is between 0 and 1. Example being 0.4202162609435618.

You need to use a little math to convert that to a random integer.

The proper way to write Spysociety's code is like so:

function randomInteger(min:int, max:int):int
{
    return Math.floor(Math.random() * (1 + (max - min))) + min;
}

function generateRandom(num:int):void
{
    tip_mc.gotoAndStop(num);
}

generateRandom(randomInteger(1, 10));

The randomNumber() function used in that context will return a psuedo-random integer between the values 1 and 10.

This will only work in AS3.

[MSGhero]

His code works fine...maybe you missed the int() that he put in there. Floors the random number * length to get [0,length -1], which works in this language.
:Stupid MATLAB

[Diki]

At 1/25/12 02:27 PM, MSGhero wrote: His code works fine...maybe you missed the int() that he put in there. Floors the random number * length to get [0,length -1], which works in this language.

I didn't miss the int(), I was just not thinking clearly.
I was only thinking in the context of generating a psuedo-random integer of any given range, not specifically an integer with a range always starting at zero.

So I was I wrong about Spysociety's code. It will work in this context.

[BabySteps]

SORRY GUYS,

i need it in AS2, forgot to mention that :p

[Spysociety]

The same thing but you change :void to :Void

[BabySteps]

At 1/25/12 03:21 PM, Spysociety wrote: The same thing but you change :void to :Void

**Error** Symbol=tip_mc, layer=Layer 2, frame=2:Line 2: The class or interface 'int' could not be loaded.
function generateRandom(num:int):Void

[BabySteps]

would anyone mind making an example for me in flash 8 format please?

[Spysociety]

I know this mighty would happen. int does exist in AS2 but maybe could not be used in place of a Number.

Just change num:int to num:Number. This will work then.

[Kirk-Cocaine]

At 1/25/12 03:51 PM, BabySteps wrote:

At 1/25/12 03:21 PM, Spysociety wrote: The same thing but you change :void to :Void

**Error** Symbol=tip_mc, layer=Layer 2, frame=2:Line 2: The class or interface 'int' could not be loaded.
function generateRandom(num:int):Void

int isn't available in AS2, you have to use Number instead.

[Spysociety]

At 1/25/12 03:56 PM, Kirk-Cocaine wrote:

At 1/25/12 03:51 PM, BabySteps wrote:

At 1/25/12 03:21 PM, Spysociety wrote: The same thing but you change :void to :Void

**Error** Symbol=tip_mc, layer=Layer 2, frame=2:Line 2: The class or interface 'int' could not be loaded.
function generateRandom(num:int):Void

int isn't available in AS2, you have to use Number instead.

If you write it in AS2:

var num:Number=int(2.1+2.1);
trace(num);

Will output you 4, as it would do in AS3.

[Diki]

At 1/25/12 04:04 PM, Spysociety wrote: If you write it in AS2:

var num:Number=int(2.1+2.1);
trace(num);

Will output you 4, as it would do in AS3.

I think what he meant was that int is not available as a class.
Such that the following is not valid in AS2:

var foo:Number = int(42); //valid
var bar:int = int(1234); //invalid

[BabySteps]

thanks for the help guys, so now it goes to a random frame (like i wanted)
but after it transitions, i would like it to skip to ANOTHER random frame.

http://www.newgrounds.com/dump/item/913e 55afcc30ad6daeaae052045db2fe

help?

[Spysociety]

var skipped:Boolean=false;

function randomize():Void
{
        if(!skipped)
        {
                   generateRandom(Math.random()*tip_mc._totalframes);
                   skipped=true;
        }
        if(transition_mc._currentframe==transition_mc._totalframes)
        {
                    skipped=false;
        }
}

onEnterFrame=randomize;

This may do what you want.

[BabySteps]

At 1/25/12 05:11 PM, Spysociety wrote: var skipped:Boolean=false;

function randomize():Void
{
if(!skipped)
{
generateRandom(Math.random()*tip_mc._tot alframes);
skipped=true;
}
if(transition_mc._currentframe==transiti on_mc._totalframes)
{
skipped=false;
}
}

onEnterFrame=randomize;

This may do what you want.

no, that didn't do anything...