MiniBusiness

First of we set up the scene, What you will need is a button, I just made a simple graphic with a gradient, then convert it to a button symbol by right clicking and choose convert to symbol. Give the button an instance name, we will need it when we have to do some action scripting. I called mine "roll".Then we need a simple text box, place it center on the stage, and change its property to dynamic textbox, so its able to receive information through actionscripting.
Basically this is what we need to make things work, but to make the game a bit more interesting we also need some graphic for visual appeal. I just made 6 different view of a dice, I made it in Photoshop, (I could have done it in any graphic related environment.
Import your images to the stage, File -> Import -> Import to stage and locate your dice image files.
Now separately convert all images to movie clips and give them instance names like this dice_1, dice_2, dice_3, dice_4, dice_5 and dice_6.
I very important thing now is to place all dice movie clips exactly on top of each other, an easy way to do this is to type in the x and y coordinates for all movie clips.
Now to the fun part, the action scripting.



roll.onPress = function () {



_root.result.text = 1 + Math.floor(Math.random()*6); /*numbers between 1 and 6 */



}

This function tells flash that when someone clicks on the button the textbox will show a random number between 1 and 6 using the Math function in flash, a very useful tool.
The next thing is to make a simple function that makes all our dice movie clips invisible, we will do this every time we need a new shuffle, then only show the dice with the same number of eyes as shown in the textbox (eg. random number 1 then dice_1._visible = true).



function invisible () {


_root.dice_1._visible = false
_root.dice_2._visible = false
_root.dice_3._visible = false
_root.dice_4._visible = false
_root.dice_5._visible = false
_root.dice_6._visible = false


}

Now we will need to call this function every time the button is pressed so we have to add to the onpress part of our code.


roll.onPress = function () {



_root.result.text = 1 + Math.floor(Math.random()*6); /*numbers between 1 and 6 */



invisible();

}



We are almost done, this next part is the most annoying part to type, its not that complicated its an if condition with 5 else if's, this will control that if the number 1 comes up, then we will show dice movie clip one, if number 2 comes up, then we will show dice movie clip two and so on. This code also has to be added in the buttons onpress code so the final onpress code will look like this.



roll.onPress = function () {



_root.result.text = 1 + Math.floor(Math.random()*6); /*numbers between 1 and 6 */



invisible();



if (_root.result.text == 1) {
_root.dice_1._visible = true
} else if (_root.result.text == 2) {
_root.dice_2._visible = true
} else if (_root.result.text == 3) {
_root.dice_3._visible = true
} else if (_root.result.text == 4) {
_root.dice_4._visible = true
} else if (_root.result.text == 5) {
_root.dice_5._visible = true
} else if (_root.result.text == 6) {
_root.dice_6._visible = true
}

}

Just to clarify I will try to explain how this if and else if part works.

if number 1 comes up then show dice 1

else if number 2 comes up then show dice 2

else if number 3 comes up then show dice 3

And so on.

Here is the final code.


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roll.onPress = function () {



_root.result.text = 1 + Math.floor(Math.random()*6); /*numbers between 1 and 6 */



invisible();



if (_root.result.text == 1) {
_root.dice_1._visible = true
} else if (_root.result.text == 2) {
_root.dice_2._visible = true
} else if (_root.result.text == 3) {
_root.dice_3._visible = true
} else if (_root.result.text == 4) {
_root.dice_4._visible = true
} else if (_root.result.text == 5) {
_root.dice_5._visible = true
} else if (_root.result.text == 6) {
_root.dice_6._visible = true
}

}



function invisible () {
_root.dice_1._visible = false
_root.dice_2._visible = false
_root.dice_3._visible = false
_root.dice_4._visible = false
_root.dice_5._visible = false
_root.dice_6._visible = false
}

Hey, i started learning about networks when i was playing with settings on my laptop. I discovered ad-hoc networks. Basically if you dont know hoe it works iv'e got built in woreless in my laptop but you can get an adapter, and ive got the internet from my moderm by an ethernet cable. I can connect to wireless and lan at once, and you can share the internet from the sending laptop. The only downside is that you have to keep the sending laptop turned on to receive it all the time. what you can do aswell is printer sharing, hard drive sharing (personally i have an external har drive), you can share music, pictures documents, you can even access other programs. I hope this helps you and feel free to ask me questions.

I use to be a member and personally i got bored in the end, i had my own house and stuff but it all costs money which takes ages to get your levels up to make money. Pluss when u did stuff like runecraft it took ages to walk up to the bank to get more rune essence. I find walking around the whole place took too long so thats what bored me.

Ive Just started using flash for simple webs, and a few games. I'm getting a bit confused with the actionscript, im still giving it my best though. I mean loads of people have asked me to make sites and im happy to do it and im getting paid aswell but its just the coding for me.

Hi, i was just thinking when you do websites do you find it easy using flash and actionscript, im just getting use to it now but what are your views?