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How do I make a random movieclip visible based on a variable's quantity?

May 30, 2012 11:52 AM

Tags: #problem #flash #as3 #dynamic #variable #movieclip

Hi all!

Very new to all this so this should be an easy question!

I have a line of code that gives a variable "random" a random number between 1 and 100.

I have 100 movieclips called: mc1, mc2, mc3 . . mc100

I want to do somthing like this:

mc[random].visible=true

..to make a random shape visible.

Any ideas?

Cheers

Chris

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1. Ned Murphy,

May 30, 2012 11:57 AM in reply to LittleBigCJ

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If those are the instance names of the movieclips, then you can use...

this["mc"+String(random)].visible = true;

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2. LittleBigCJ,

May 30, 2012 12:20 PM in reply to Ned Murphy

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You genius! That's been bugging me for ages! Thanks a lot

Chris

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3. Ned Murphy,

May 30, 2012 12:22 PM in reply to LittleBigCJ

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You're welcome

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