Thanks, Scott. I'm not sure I follow what you're saying, so let me expand on what I'm trying to do: I want a number (25 to 200) of objects randomly positioned on the stack/window but favoring the center of the stack/window. Would your described method do this for me? Sorry for being slow...
Cheers, Roger On Mar 3, 2013, at 7:03 PM, Scott Rossi <sc...@tactilemedia.com> wrote: > There may be a better mathematical method, but I suppose I would start > with the loc of the screen and add some small random offsets to the loc. > Then at random times when the loc is calculated, I would add some major > offsets to the center loc. In this way, the center loc is always favored. > Of course, I don't know how you're going about the calcs, so this may not > work for your situation. > > Regards, > > Scott Rossi > Creative Director > Tactile Media, UX Design > > > > > On 3/3/13 5:46 PM, "Roger Guay" <i...@mac.com> wrote: > >> I suspect this is easy, but I'm not coming up with anything. Can anyone >> tell me how to get weighted random numbers in LC? Say I want to position >> something on the screen randomly but favor the center of the screen. Any >> ideas? >> >> Thanks, >> Roger >> _______________________________________________ >> use-livecode mailing list >> use-livecode@lists.runrev.com >> Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your >> subscription preferences: >> http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode >> > > > > _______________________________________________ > use-livecode mailing list > use-livecode@lists.runrev.com > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription > preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
