Counter 'Lives' & Mouse Click

[Merrie]

Hello everyone, I am pleased to be part of the ActionScript forum. I have a couple of questions and thank you ahead of time for your assistance.

I use Selteco Flash Designer 5 (As I cannot afford to purchase Flash 8 or MX2004) and it seemed an easier way to break into flash. Back to my question.

Im creating a fairly simple adventure text game, basically is is a presentation where you have some choices that will lead you in different directions in the adventure.

Now what I would like to do is add an action script counter for '3 lives' if the player chooses to 'fight' a monster the results will be random, either a hit (which subtracts 1 life) or the monster is hit (which subtracts 1 of it's life)

So the choice would be: Do you wish to fight? (button click - goes to fight frame) .. random event occurs for hit .. 1 life is removed, monster or character.

Then the choice would be: Do you wish to fight again? (goes to another fight frame as above) .. Or withdraw (goes to a withdraw frame)

So Im looking for help with the 'counter'
And with the random 'hit' event.

[Paerez]

For counter you just do something like this:
var lives = 3;

then for the hit event, you do:

// hit half the time
var hit:Boolean = Math.random() > .5;
if(hit) {
lives--;
}

[Merrie]

Thank you for the answer, much appreciated, I'll let you know how it went.