Load a series of movieclips in random order

I have 9 movie clips which I want to load in random order, so that viewers who come to the webpage don't always see the same thing. I have them set up as 9 frames within another mc.
I'm no Actionscript expert (far from it) but I found a script on one of these forums (it's from a very old thread though) that does just what I need EXCEPT it always displays the first one first, and then the rest in random order. I tried making the first frame empty, but then there was a big lag before it showed anything, because of the timer. Any suggestions, or perhaps a different way altogether? Here's the script I used:


myMc.stop();
time = getTimer();
wait = 500;//1000ms = 1 second
_root.onEnterFrame = function(){
if (getTimer() > time+2000){
myMc.gotoAndStop(random(myMc._framesloaded)+1);
time = getTimer();
}
}


I'm using Flash CS4 but Actionscript 2. Thanks!

Actionscript Code:

myMc.stop();
time = getTimer();
var myMC_h=22;
wait = 500;//1000ms = 1 second
_root.onEnterFrame = function() {
    if (getTimer()>time+2000) {
        //myMc.gotoAndStop(random(myMc._framesloaded)+1);
        for (i=0; i<9; i++) {
            this["myMC"+i].removeMovieClip();
            this.attachMovie("myMC","myMC"+i,this.getNextHighestDepth(),{_x:100, _y:100+this._y+myMC_h*i});
            this["myMC"+i].gotoAndStop(random(10)+1);
        }
        time = getTimer();
    }

};

marlopax

Thanks but - this does exactly the same thing! Always starts by showing frame 1 of the movie clip.
Any other ideas?
By the way, each of the movie clips within my main mc are 100 frames long. I changed the time to 9000, to give me the time I need for each one.
I'm not sure what this line does:
wait = 500;//1000ms = 1 second
When I commented it out, it made no difference.

Actually the var wait is to make the interval dynamic. For instance:

if (getTimer()>time+2000) {

change to

if (getTimer()>time+wait) {

so if you change the value of var wait the interval of time will change.

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this does exactly the same thing! Always starts by showing frame 1 of the movie clip.

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what exactly you mean?

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I changed the time to 9000, to give me the time I need for each one.

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this seems that you want to wait for 9000 ms on each frame of your hunderd frame movies, right?

post the fla.

marlopax

I'm fine with the pacing and yes, 9000 seems about right, no problem there.
The problem is that when the script runs, we're already seeing frame #1 of the mc. I want the order of the whole sequence to be random, starting with the first frame we see. Should the script be on a different frame than the mc?

Here's the fla. I swapped out differently-colored number sequences for the photos, for smaller file size. The first set of numbers is white. How can I change it so that it's random?

Thank you!

Code:

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stop();

var time = getTimer();
var myMC_h = 22;
var wait = 9000;//1000ms = 1 second

myMC._visible = false;
do {
        myMC.gotoAndStop(random(myMC._framesloaded)+1);
} while (myMC._framesloaded<myMC._totalframes);
myMC._visible = true;

_root.onEnterFrame = checkUpdate;

function checkUpdate() {
        if (getTimer()>time+wait) {
                myMC.gotoAndStop(random(myMC._framesloaded)+1);
                for (i=0; i<9; i++) {
                        this["myMC"+i].removeMovieClip();
                        this.attachMovie("myMC","myMC"+i,this.getNextHighestDepth(),{_x:100, _y:100+this._y+myMC_h*i});
                        this["myMC"+i].gotoAndStop(random(10)+1);
                }
                time = getTimer();
        }
}

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Visible = false! A brilliant solution, thank you so much! Works like a charm.