Chris,
I think your problem is the use of the word "lines"…
These versions will show the difference:
on mouseUp
local myVar
put "one,two,three" into myVar
put myVar
wait 30
sort lines of myVar by random(10000)
put myVar
end mouseUp
on mouseUp
local myVar
put "one,two,three" into myVar
put myVar
wait 30
sort items of myVar by random(10000)
put myVar
end mouseUp
on mouseUp
local myVar
put "one" & return & "two" & return & "three" into myVar -- now myVar has
lines
put myVar
wait 30
sort lines of myVar by random(10000
put myVar
end mouseUp
be well,
randy
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On May 22, 2013, at 12:59 PM, Chris Sheffield wrote:
> I have a list of three words that I need to be randomly sorted. To start
> with, the first word is the correct answer to a question. I want to re-order
> the list so that the correct answer may be the second or third word, and not
> necessarily the first. How can I do this successfully every time? The docs
> give an example like this:
>
> sort lines of myVar by random(the number of lines of myVar)
>
> But this only seems to work successfully one time. After that, the list is
> always set so the first word is the correct answer. So then I tried randomly
> setting the randomSeed value, since this value is supposed to affect the
> random() function and the any keyword, but this didn't seem to make much
> difference except to change it so either the second or third word is *always*
> the right answer. I need it to be more mixed up than that.
>
> So does anyone have a good way to do this?
>
> Thanks,
> Chris
>
>
> --
> Chris Sheffield
> Read Naturally, Inc.
> www.readnaturally.com
>
>
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