I'm still a bit unclear about the result you want, but thinking about it more, I'd guess you want something like a radial orientation of objects centered on the card. I'm pretty sure you'd need a logarithmic function for this, and while I'm not hip to the right way to do it, I cobbled together an option for fun that seems to come close (via your message box): go url "http://www.tactilemedia.com/download/random_position.livecode";
Pressing the button creates 200 graphics of random shape/size/translucency, and positions them radially near the center of the card. For me, this looks acceptable (and like modern art), but as I said, it may not be the result you're looking for. You can play with the randomCardPosition function to change the results. Regards, Scott Rossi Creative Director Tactile Media, UX Design On 3/3/13 6:14 PM, "Roger Guay" <i...@mac.com> wrote: >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 _______________________________________________ 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