At 12:37 13.02.2001 -0800, R Kumar wrote:
>Hi
>
>I have a field which has 4 possible answers to a
>question. How do i randomly change the order in which
>the answers
>appear, when the user enters the screen. Or is it
>advisable to do it with a list.
>
>Any help would be appreciated.
>
>ravi
ravi,
as a rule I always use fields for display only and keep any computations in
variables for speed reasons. And what you need here can be done easily with
a list:
on sortListAtRandom dL
-- creates a linear list with the
-- input list's items in random position
if dL.ilk <> #list then return
LTemp=[]
repeat with index = dL.count down to 1
LTemp.addat( random(LTemp.count + 1),dL[index] )
end repeat
return LTemp
end
from the messWin:
-- Welcome to Director --
dL = [1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9]
put sortListatRandom(dL)
-- [6, 3, 7, 2, 9, 1, 4, 8, 5]
-- [7, 2, 8, 1, 4, 6, 5, 3, 9]
best regards
daniel plaenitz
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