Random Number Generator

Thanks for your replies on this.  I originally grabbed this code from the Code Snippets with the intention of adjusting it to my own needs. It originally displayed a random number in the Output box with the trace() function. I've replaced the script I had with Andrei wrote but it still isn't working. You'll have to forgive my lack of experience here. I've read for two weeks on the concepts of individual elements in AS3 but have no idea how they fit together yet!

Th9nker

Event listener doesn't accept number but, well, event as a parameter. You compiler should, actually, throw an error.

Try:

first_50.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, onButtonClick);

function onButtonClick(e:MouseEvent):void {
     main_balls.text = String(firstFiftyGenerator(50));
}

function firstFiftyGenerator(limit:Number):Number
{
     var randomNumber:Number = Math.floor(Math.random()*(limit+1));
     return randomNumber;
}

I'm a little surprised there is no error message (which there isn't) due to the event listener throwing an event argument versus the function's argument being a Number.  But, anyways, for the code you show, if you have a textfield with the instance name shown, then when you run that code it will fill the textfield with a random value.  But nothing else of that code will cause that value to be replaced.  The button will call the function, but nothing in that function changes what is in the textfield.

try embedding fonts for the textbox.