random images lingo

[rozza1 webforumsuser@macromedia.com]

i'm not sure if anyone can help. i have just started using director and wondered if it's possible to have a folder/cast of around 30 images and for these to be randomly viewed on the stage. Do i need to create a field on the stage where they wold appear?? If anyone has a suggestion or lingo which would enable me to do this that would be great. any help is gratefully received.

many thanks.

[TomaHawK]

Yes it is very possible :)

all you have to do is to name those cast members with the same name
followed by a number. This number will identify the member to show on
stage E.g. image1, image2, ..., image 30

then you have to calculate a random number between 1 and 30 (in my
example).

and do this to show that image on stage
sprite(thisSpriteNumber).member =
member("image"&randomCalculatedNumber)
-- updateStage (this might be needed or not, depending on when/where
the script is run)

And that should do it

Hope this will help you

On Wed, 13 Aug 2003 14:42:17 +0000 (UTC), "rozza1"
[email]webforumsuser@macromedia.com[/email] wrote:

>i'm not sure if anyone can help. i have just started using director and wondered if it's possible to have a folder/cast of around 30 images and for these to be randomly viewed on the stage. Do i need to create a field on the stage where they wold appear?? If anyone has a suggestion or lingo which would enable me to do this that would be great. any help is gratefully received.
>
>many thanks.
>

[Desmond22 webforumsuser@macromedia.com]

Hi,

This is pretty straight forward:

You store your images in the cast and change the cast member property of a sprite on stage to a random number between 1 and 30.

For example if your sprite was in channel 1 and your pictures where between 1 and 30 in the cast:

sprite(1).membernum=random(30)

Of course you?ll have to decide when this is going to happen ? on mousedown, on keydown, on exitframe etc etc.
The basics forum s probably a good place to start if you re not sure of this kind of thing - and of course the help file.
I ve attached a little file which might get you started.

Good luck

Des


[url]http://webforums.macromedia.com/attachments/RandomMember.zip[/url]

[rozza1 webforumsuser@macromedia.com]

thanks a lot for your help. will give it a go...