Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!unisoft!cerebus!dalea
From: dalea@cerebus.UUCP (Dale M. Arends X5706)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hypercard
Subject: Re: shuffling cards
Message-ID: <479@cerebus.UUCP>
Date: 6 Jan 88 21:05:41 GMT
References: <3708@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu> <778@ur-tut.UUCP> <7130@apple.UUCP>
Reply-To: dalea@cerebus.UUCP (Dale M. Arends)
Followup-To: comp.sys.mac.hypercard
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Organization: Fujitsu America, Inc.
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Keywords: random, shuffle
Summary: Randon sequencing

Unless the intent is to hit every card once and only once each time through
the stack, you could have a field in each card that holds a number.  Then, 
put a statement such as "go to card with random(n) in field 'number'" in
the mouseUp script of the next card button and the previous card button.
This would allow chosing the next random card at the time it is needed.

It isn't clean, but it works.  The drawback is that some cards may be hit 
repeatedly while others may not be hit at all.

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		Dale M. Arends  (Fujitsu America Inc., San Jose, Calif.)
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