Can randomize which movieclips react to a button in HTML5?

Question

Hi all,I'm trying to help someone figure something out for a project they're working on. They have a series of movieclips which they'll make invisible with the classic "this.movieclipname.visible=false" code.  They have a button that's intended to reveal one movieclip at a time.  Is it possible to set it so that the order in which the movieclips are revealed is totally randomized?  So if someone was to play this in a browser several times they'd be seeing the movieclips in different orders as they click through each time?Hope I'm explaining that clearly enough...ThanksD

JoãoCésar17023019 · Accepted Answer

Hi.

There several ways of achieving this interactivity. One way would be to store the Movie Clip instances in an Array, sort the array and then increment a variable to access each item of the array in each click. Like this:

var root = this;
var index = 0;
var mcs = [ root.yourMC0, root.yourMC1, root.yourMC2, root.yourMC3, root.yourMC4 ];

mcs.sort(function(){ return Math.random() - 0.5 });
mcs.forEach(function(mc){ mc.visible = false; });
root.yourRevealButton.on("click", function(){ mcs[Math.min(index++, mcs.length - 1)].visible = true; });

I hope this helps.

Regards,

JC

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