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2004-02-18 - By Lord, Susan Ms.

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I had taken this conversation offline, but this was such good advice, I wanted
to post it! Thanks again Jesse for all of your help!

-- --Original Message-- --
From: Jesse Warden [mailto:warden@(protected)]
Sent: Wednesday, February 18, 2004 2:55 PM
To: Lord, Susan Ms.
Subject: RE:

First, yeah, check the 3rd parameter:

attachMovie(getRandomSymbol2(), "mc2", 0);

0 is the zDepth, or stacking order. Only one movie clip can ever be present at
any given level. What us lazy programmers do is:

depth = -1;

depth++;
attachMovie(getRandomSymbol2(), "mc" + depth, depth);
depth++;
attachMovie(getRandomSymbol2(), "mc" + depth, depth);
depth++;
attachMovie(getRandomSymbol2(), "mc" + depth, depth);

Now, Flash is weird in that you can have symbols named the same, but your never
allowed to to have 2 movie clips in teh same depth. Using a forever
incrementing depth variable, you'll never run out of room... unless it hits
like 3 billion or something (I think that's the highest Flash can do), but that
will like never happen.

As far as keeping what they hit, modify this slighty:

function showRandomSymbol(){
mc1.removeMovieClip();
mc2.removeMovieClip();
sym2 = getRandomSymbol2();
sym1 = getRandomSymbol1();
attachMovie(getRandomSymbol2(), "mc2", 0);
attachMovie(getRandomSymbol1(), "mc1", 0);
mc1._y = 165;
mc1._x = 125;
mc2._y = 165;
mc2._x = 245;
}

Notice how I did't preced "sym2" and 1 with "var"? var, when put in front of a
variable in a function, makes it local, meaning that after the function is done
running, it dies.

function test(){
var cow = "moo";
trace(cow); // moo
}
trace(cow); // undefined

However, since I didn't preced it with var, it's now global, so the latest
symbol gotten is kept in sym1 and sym2.

Hope that helps!

-- --Original Message-- --
From: Lord, Susan Ms. [mailto:susan.lord@(protected)]
Sent: Wednesday, February 18, 2004 02:47 PM
To: warden@(protected)
Subject:

Hey there Jesse,

Sorry to bug you again... I have 2 more quick questions. I attempted to add a
new slot. Below is the code. Basically, in the attachMovie portion, the 2nd
attach movie is the only one that works. So, if I switch the positions of
attaching mc1 and mc2, only the latter shows up. Any ideas on that one? I
imagine it is a weird flash thing.

Also, for my 3rd slot, when I add it, there is a dependency based what the
student gets for the 2nd slot. Is there any way to capture the symbol name
getRandomSymbol returns in a variable?

Susan

-- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ------
-- ---- -----

stop()

slot1 = ["S1_car", "S1_foot"];
slot2 = ["S2_Binoculars", "S2_NoBinoculars"]

function getRandomSymbol1(){
var howMany1 = slot1.length;
return slot1[Math.floor(Math.random() * howMany1)];

}

function getRandomSymbol2(){
var howMany2 = slot2.length;
return slot2[Math.floor(Math.random() * howMany2)];

}

function showRandomSymbol(){
mc1.removeMovieClip();
mc2.removeMovieClip();
attachMovie(getRandomSymbol2(), "mc2", 0);
attachMovie(getRandomSymbol1(), "mc1", 0);
mc1._y = 165;
mc1._x = 125;
mc2._y = 165;
mc2._x = 245;
}

lever1_btn.onRelease = function() {
showRandomSymbol();
gotoAndPlay(lever1_btn);
trace("lever 1 clicked");
}

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN">
<HTML><HEAD>
<META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; charset=iso-8859 (See http://iso-8859.ora-code.com)-1">
<TITLE>Message</TITLE>

<META content="MSHTML 6.00.2800.1400" name=GENERATOR></HEAD>
<BODY>
<DIV>I had
taken this conversation offline, but this was such good advice, I wanted to
post
it!  Thanks again Jesse for all of your help!</DIV> 
<DIV></DIV>
<DIV class=OutlookMessageHeader lang=en-us dir=ltr align=left>-- --Original Message-- -- From: Jesse Warden
[mailto:warden@(protected)] Sent: Wednesday, February 18, 2004
2:55 PM To: Lord, Susan Ms. Subject: RE:
 </DIV>
<DIV>First
,
yeah, check the 3rd parameter:</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>attachMovie(getRandomSymbol2(), "mc2", 0); </DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>0 is
the zDepth, or stacking order.  Only one movie clip can ever be present at
any given level.  What us lazy programmers do is:</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>depth
= -1;</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>depth++;</DIV>
<DIV>attachMovie(getRandomSymbol2()
,
"mc" + depth, depth);
</DIV>
<DIV>depth++;</DIV>
<DIV>attachMovie(getRandomSymbol2(), "mc" + depth, depth);
</DIV>
<DIV>depth++;<
/DIV>
<DIV>attachMovie(getRandomSymbol2()
,
"mc" + depth, depth);
<
/DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>Now, Flash is weird in that
you can have symbols named the same, but your never allowed to to have 2 movie
clips in teh same depth.  Using a forever incrementing depth variable,
you'll never run out of room... unless it hits like 3 billion or something (I
think that's the highest Flash can do), but that will like never
happen.</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>As far as keeping what they
hit, modify this
slighty:</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>
function
showRandomSymbol(){        
mc1.removeMovieClip();        
mc2.removeMovieClip();         sym2 =
getRandomSymbol2();         sym1
= getRandomSymbol1();        
attachMovie(getRandomSymbol2(), "mc2", 0);
         attachMovie(getRandomSymbol1(),
"mc1", 0);         mc1._y = 165;
         mc1._x = 125;
         mc2._y = 165;
         mc2._x = 245; } 
Notice
how I did't preced "sym2" and 1 with "var"?  var, when put in front of a
variable in a function, makes it local, meaning that after the function is done
running, it dies.
function
test(){    var cow = "moo";    trace(cow); //
moo } trace(cow); // undefined
However, since I didn't preced it with var, it's now
global, so the latest symbol gotten is kept in sym1 and sym2. 
Hope that
helps!</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<BLOCKQUOTE style="MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px">
<DIV></DIV>
<DIV class=OutlookMessageHeader lang=en-us dir=ltr align=left>-- --Original Message-- -- From: Lord, Susan Ms.
[mailto:susan.lord@(protected)] Sent: Wednesday, February 18,
2004 02:47 PM To: warden@(protected) Subject:
 </DIV>
Hey there Jesse, 
Sorry to bug you again... I have 2 more quick
questions.  I attempted to add a new slot.  Below is the code.&nbsp
;
Basically, in the attachMovie portion, the 2nd attach movie is the only one
that works.  So, if I switch the positions of attaching mc1 and mc2,
only
the latter shows up.  Any ideas on that one?  I imagine it is a
weird flash thing.
Also, for my 3rd slot, when I add it, there is a
dependency based what the student gets for the 2nd slot.  Is there any
way to capture the symbol name getRandomSymbol returns in a
variable?
Susan 
-- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- --
-- ---- ---- ---- ----

stop() 
slot1 = ["S1_car", "S1_foot"]; slot2 = ["S2_Binoculars", "S2_NoBinoculars"] 
function getRandomSymbol1(){
         var
howMany1 = slot1.length;       &nbsp
;
return slot1[Math.floor(Math.random() *
howMany1)];         } 
function getRandomSymbol2(){
         var
howMany2 = slot2.length;       &nbsp
;
return slot2[Math.floor(Math.random() *
howMany2)];         } 
function showRandomSymbol(){
         mc1.removeMovieClip();
         mc2.removeMovieClip();
         attachMovie(getRandomSymbol2(), "mc2", 0);
         attachMovie(getRandomSymbol1(), "mc1", 0);
         mc1._y
= 165;         mc1._x = 125;        
mc2._y = 165;
         mc2._x
= 245; } 
lever1_btn.onRelease = function() {
         showRandomSymbol();
         gotoAndPlay(lever1_btn);
         trace("lever 1 clicked"); }
 </BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></HTML>