Randomly loaded .jpg's

hello there, I have a better version fot you...

you make a mc named "hold_mc"
make a folder named "img" where you have your images(*.jpg)
use this script on your first frame:


for(i=0;i<=5;i++){
j = random(i);
_root["hold_mc"].loadMovie ("img/" + j + ".jpg");
}

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Change your goToAndPlay to gotoAndPlay - Lower case T in goto.

Then it works fine.

Osh...

I've posted an example movie to show the problem here:
http://www.21ca.com/flash/randombug.zip (about 5k)

Somebody please help save what little shred of sanity I have left.

Many thanks.

Ok, I'm trying to simplify this and it's just making me nuts.

Here's a scenario that (I think) ought to work, but doesn't:

1) make a movie clip with three named layers ("pic", "actions", "labels")
2) on the labels layer, make six named frames, five or ten frames apart ("a1", "a2", "a3... thru "a6")
3) in each named frame, on the actions layer, put a stop(); action
4) in each named frame, on the pic layer, put a different bitmap so you can see something different when you arrive at that frame.
5) return to the root level time line, make three layers ("pic", "button", "actions"). Put a stop(); action in the actions layer
6) put the completed movie clip of pictures on first frame of the root timeline, in the pic layer. Give it the instance name "pix"
7) make a generic button on first frame of the root timeline, in the button layer.
8) add this script to the button:

on (release) {
var myPick;
y = random(6);
if (y == 0) { myPick = "a1"; };
if (y == 1) { myPick = "a2"; };
if (y == 2) {myPick = "a3"; };
if (y == 3) { myPick = "a4"; };
if (y == 4) { myPick = "a5"; };
if (y == 5) { myPick = "a6"; };
_root.pix.goToAndPlay (myPick);
}

Test the movie. Click the button. Nothing happens.

If you trace (myPick) you can see it's operating correctly.

If you comment out the random script and just make the button do _root.pix.gotoAndPlay("a6");, that works... Arrgh.

What am I missing?

here's the basic drill: