Question

I want to do something like this with a variable in actionscript 3, you can ignore the randomNumber function. It’s just to make my question more clear about what I’m doing:

function randomNumber(low:Number=0, high:Number=1):Number {
return Math.floor(Math.random() * (1+high-low)) + low;
}

randomNumber(1, 3)

var selection:int = randomNumber;

mymovieclip.insideclip(selection);

So I want to basically use the contents of the variable to choose a certain movieclip. You can imagine there are multiple insideclip’s. So something like insideclip1, insideclip2, insideclip3. I randomly choose a number and put it in a variable called selection, then I want to use mymovieclip.insideclip1, 2 or 3 depending on what number that variable stores.

I’m sure there’s a way to do this someone can direct me to figuring out.

Answer 1

There are many many ways to do this (also based on what you want). One way, you could just store all the “insideclips” in to an array then choose a random index.