Going to a random frame

[ChaosEmerl]

Basically, what I want is, on the click of a button, the movie to go to a random frame. Here's what I have:

on (release) {
var say;
say = random(4);
if (say = "0") {
gotoAndStop(2);
}
else if (say = "1") {
gotoAndStop(3);
}
else if (say = "2") {
gotoAndStop(4);
}
else if (say = "3") {
gotoAndStop(5);
}
}

That seems like it should work, but it doesn't. It always goes to frame 3, no matter what I set the variable as. Is there something I'm missing here? Am I going about this the completely wrong way?

[FormerSwinger]

HI

There's a couple of things that cause your script to fail. First the random number is not a String so lose the quotes. Second the you are not assigning a new value so add a second = sign.

I'd do like this:


function randRange(min:Number, max:Number):Number {
var randomNum:Number = Math.round(Math.random()*(max-min))+min;
return randomNum;
}
on (release) {
var say;
say = randRange(2,5);
gotoAndStop(say);
}

[ChaosEmerl]

function randRange(min:Number, max:Number):Number {
var randomNum:Number = Math.round(Math.random()*(max-min))+min;
return randomNum;
}
on (release) {
var say;
say = randRange(2,5);
gotoAndStop(say);
}


Am I supposed to replace "number" with anything? Because that script doesn't work. Might note that I'm using Flash MX (6) so some of those commands might not be in that version.

[FormerSwinger]

Don't know about version six. Try removing the variable types:


function randRange(min, max){
var randomNum= Math.round(Math.random()*(max-min))+min;
return randomNum;
}
on (release) {
var say;
say = randRange(2,5);
gotoAndStop(say);
}

[ChaosEmerl]

Thanks. Worked perfectly. Just had to move the "on (release) {" to the beginning.