I have an array with up to 1 elements. These elements are sorted of
some kind and I need to reorganize the elements so that their positions
becomes absolutely random.
I guess my best approach would be to assign my own sort function to
the Array.sort() method which did nothing but return
I'd do it like this:
Take a new array,
take a random element from the oldArray and remove it from the oldArray.
Then put it as the next element in the newArray.
like so:
var oldArray:Array = [item1,item2,item3,item4,item5,item6];
var newArray:Array = [];
while (oldArray.length) {
Martin,
Have you looked at
http://proto.layer51.com/l.aspx?p=3
There are about 10 custom methods of shuffle-like.
I haven't tested them for performance though :-).
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Best regards,
GregoryN
http://GOusable.com
Flash components
See:
[Flashcoders] Array.shuffle
http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/pipermail/flashcoders/2002-August/043766.html
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Danny Kodicek wrote:
The basic randomisation algorithm is:
take a new array
for each element in the old array: add it at a random position in the
new array
It's not really rocket
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