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TracyParish's avatar
TracyParish
Super Hero
8 years ago

Ensuring a Random Number is not Re-picked

This one might be for the javascript experts in the community, but open to all. I think someone (and it might have been Owen Holt) posted how you can use javascript to create a random variable and...
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BridgetBrown's avatar
BridgetBrown
Community Member
7 years ago

Owen - I have a knowledge check dice game with only 6 numbers.  Currently I am using the Random number variable, but of course the learner roll 1-5, answer questions 1-5 and have to roll 10 more times to get question #6.

If I use your java - do I take out the random number variable?   I am also not clear how, when the array picks a number I plug that number into a text variable (%diceroll%!) so that I can trigger a jump to a slide/question.

Thanks.

OwenHolt's avatar
OwenHolt
Super Hero
7 years ago

Correct, you would not need to use StoryLine's random number if you are using JavaScript.

Once you generate a random number using JS, you send it back to SL using the setvariable code.
In this example -> player.SetVar("Text_Array", textArray);

player.SetVar is the command.
"TextArray" is the name of the StoryLine variable being used.
textArray is the JS variable that has the value you are sending back to StoryLine.