Total flash noob, how do I do this?

[nickbachman]

Alright, I don't know anything really about actionscript or doing anything other than simple animation in flash. I was wondering, I made this imperial probe droid from star wars:

http://www.nickbachman.com/images/hoth.h tml

Right now, it doesn't do anything other than move and make its sound. I want to make it so a dot randomly appears in the landscape every once in a long while, and then the user can click on the dot and it'll pop up a little window saying what the droid has spotted (rebel scout, wampa, etc), and that's it. Any ideas? Maybe it's easy. I really have no clue. I just draw! D:

[Kirk-Cocaine]

AS: Random deals with generating random X/Y positions, while, AS: Intervals deals with the timer aspects.

Both tutorials are for AS 2.

[Woadraiders]

Yeah, just randomly attach a movieclip to the stage every few seconds, and inside that movieclip it has a movieclip that when rolled over plays some like "popup" animation that has some dynamic text in it (that you'll set through code, maybe choose a random target from an array).
desc.text = "The droid has spotted a "+targets[Math.floor(Math.round()*target s.length)]+" on the ice";