Should send this off to All in Play.
I keep getting the same cards. Smiles.
Their three lines of code that they show on their site, don't account for
waiting. They don't want to admit the trueth about getting a random number
from what time it is.
Thanks for your code on how to randomize a value Tom.
Gary
----- Original Message -----
From: "Thomas Ward" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Gamers Discussion list" <gamers@audyssey.org>
Sent: Sunday, November 26, 2006 12:20 PM
Subject: Re: [Audyssey] randomising
> Hi Nicol,
>
> Nicol wrote:
>> I would very much like to know how its possible for the computer to
>> randomise.
> End Quote
>
> Well, actually it isn't very complex, but you will have rto write a
> function which does a few things such as seed the randomize function you
> are making with the computers time, select a number, and then return it
> to the variable calling it. In C#.NET a function to randomly select a
> random number would look like this. Make sure say all punctuation is on
> and your message window is maximized.
>
> public int RandomNumber(int low, int high)
> {
>
> // First we need a temperary random seed object
> // to seed our generator.
> Random seed = new Random();
>
> // Now, we will advance the seed with the system time
> // and store it in the time variable.
> int time = seed.Next();
>
> // At this point we will create a random object for
> // randomly generating numbers,
> // and seed it with the time.
> Random select = new Random(time);
>
> // Now, we will select a number from the low and high numbers,
> // and then add 1.
> int number = select.Next(low, high) + 1;
>
> // Return our random number.
> return number;
> }
>
> A couple of notes is in .net apps you can also make an call to the
> active thread to sleep or wait for so many milliseconds so as to allow
> the time on the clock to change. Without changing the time you will
> return the same number over and over again. To pause the thread in C#
> .net you would use
> Thread.Sleep(10;
> which would grab the active thread and pause it for 10 ms.
> So to use this function it would look like
>
> Thread.Sleep(10);
> dice1 = RandomNumber(1, 6);
> Thread.Sleep(10);
> dice2 = RandomNumber(1, 6);
>
>
> Which would roll to dice for you and all you need from there is display
> or do something based on the dice roll.
>
>
>
>
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