Lingo code to show a random number

I am learning Director and my partner and I are trying write
lingo code for when a button is clicked, a random number between 1
and 6 is shown in a text field. Can someone help me? I tried the
code in the Director help that is written: diceroll = (random (6) +
random (6)). We want it for only one die, so we didn't add the
second random(6), but we haven't been able to figure out what else
we should be putting in the code. Thank you.

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Originally posted by:
graphics cat
I have rechecked the spelling and it's still not working.
Most of the time there is no error message, it just doesn't do
anything. Sometimes this error comes up - Script error:
SyntaxEffor: missing; before statment on nouseUp me.
Please, could you post your code or even upload your file
somewhere we can download and check it out. This will help greatly
in trying to find the syntax error you are making.
In the meantime, here's a few links you can check out that
will facilitate learning Director:
http://www.furrypants.com/loope/index.htm
-- advanced lingo
http://www.fbe.unsw.edu.au/learning/director/
-- excellent tutorials
http://www.dreamlight.com/insights/07/
-- learning Lingo
http://www.andyw.com/director/
-- technical guide, tips n’ tricks
http://www.director-onine.com
-- articles and forum
http://www.mediamacros.com/
-- for scripts and more
http://www.xtrasy.com/ --
for xtras and links
http://www.updateStage.com/
-- for quirk list, articles and xtras
http://www.lingoworkshop.com/
-- for some pretty advanced code
http://groups.google.ca/groups?hl=en&lr=&group=macromedia.director.lingo
http://groups.google.ca/groups?hl=en&lr=&group=macromedia.director.basics
http://www.zeusprod.com/
-- some dated technical info
http://www.proscenia.net/resources/tutorials/director/d1/index.html
http://www.shocknet.org.uk/
-- internet, XML, ASP/SQL, database connectivity
http://www.jmckell.com/ -- Math
Lingo
http://www.vtc.com/products/directormx2004.htm
-- free QT How To Videos
http://www.shockwave3d.com/
-- shockwave games
http://www.shocksites.com/
-- information/news repository
http://www.noisecrime.com/
-- cool 3D examples
http://www.chromelib.com/
-- shockwave 3D behavior library
http://www.shocksites.com/
-- good list of Director sites
http://poppy.macromedia.com/~thiggins/
-- Thomas Higgins
http://multimediahelp.org/home/director.html?action=downloads
http://nonlinear.openspark.com/alpha/
-- James Newton’s site. Examples
http://nonlinear.openspark.com/
http://www.j-roen.net/diropener/
-- tools to extract media from dxr, dcr
http://www.macromedia.com/support/director/
-- official MM support site
http://www.robotduck.com/learning/introduction/introduction1.htm
-- tutorials
http://brennan.young.net/Edu/Lingvad.html
-- OOP & Space Invaders game
http://www.markme.com/mxna/index.cfm?category=Director
–MM XML News
http://www.macromedia.com/cfusion/knowledgebase/index.cfm?id=tn_18629
http://martyplumbo.com/tutor/
-- 3D tutorials
http://www.ullala.at/ -- IL
widgets & cool 3D stuff
http://www.pm-studio.pl/xtraforum/
-- MM Xtra Developer Forum
http://freextras.freeweb.hu/
-- free Xtras
http://www.easyrgb.com/math.html
-- colour model conversion code
http://www.farbflash.de/director/
-- excellent examples of IL and 3D stuff
http://www.acm.org/tog/GraphicsGems/
-- graphics gems code repository – IL
http://www.toxictoy.com/resources.php
-- several introductory tutorials
http://www.catb.org/%7Eesr/faqs/smart-questions.html
http://www.donrelyea.com/testdept1.html
-- some very cool scripts
http://director-online.com/havok/
-- havok code, demos and more
http://www.macromedia.com/software/player_census/shockwaveplayer/version_penetration.html
-- shockwave penetration stats
http://www.codeproject.com/csharp/endogine.asp#xx1253907xx
– Endongine
http://www.macromedia.com/software/eula/third_party/
-- third party eulas

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When I am calling a US business, sometimes a toll-free (800/877/866) and other times not, the number shows up with a (559) area-code and a different number each time. If I am calling someplace important (bank/internet provider/electric company/PayPal) they will give Me a hard time as I am not calling from the number they have listed.
This is NOT a Windows issue. To suggest udating to the latest version is offensive. I am running Windows 7 with all the most recent updates. I need a real solution. Not some platitude of, "Make sure you are running the most current verion of Skype." (I am). This happens no matter what computer I am logged into with My Skype account.
I have checked several times the the number listed in "Display this number when I call mobiles and landlines from Skype" is correct. The number displays correctly when I call some businesses and all home Caller IDs, but not to other businesses. Every business I call is in the US.

I have the same problem. Although I have my Caller ID set to show my Skype Number businesses tell me they're seeing area code 559 with a random/different last 4 digits each time. I just went through an account verification with a vendor and it was impossible to get them to verify - kept telling me I need to be calling from the number they have on file.
Come on Microsoft. There's no way to actually get support (for a paid product no less), let alone see anyone participating in support (hic) forums to resolve countless issues that others are reporting.

VBScript Truly Random Number/Password Generators?

So... I have a script that generates random passwords for use in a project in VBS. The code used to generate the password is something that is very similar to this blog post:
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/gstemp/archive/2004/02/23/78434.aspx. And considering every random-number generator in VBS that I was able to find appears to be based (at least, in part)
off of this code, I'm looking for something that is reliable.
The above blog article basically states that the builtin Rnd and Randomize functions are not functionally secure for password generation because of the small number of "seeds" that vbscript has builtin to it's randomize/rnd functions. And because of
this small number of seeds, it's relatively easy to deduce the password because of it. So ultimately, I'm asking to know if there is a reliable way to generate, "truly random" numbers that are secure enough for password values (through random number
-> ANSI character translation)?
The article talks about the Crypto API being able to generate truly random numbers but I wasn't able to find any documentation on how to access the Crypto API from VBS. Can anyone provide any assistance on either of these two questions? Thanks.

@Richard
The Rnd() function does not appear to be good enough for me. I'm testing password generation on different machines at startup and writing those values to AD. What I've seen is a preponderance of either "very close" or identical passwords from
using this general code:
Randomize
rndNum = Int((122 - 33 + 1) * Rnd + 33)
...who's value gets converted to a character and appended to a string that gets repeated x times to generate a password. To show you what spawned this entire thread, my computers (that are all running this at startup), are generating passwords that
look like this:
"ua*td"4poYAp=SlL
#ua+td"4ppZBq>SlL
#vb+ue#5qpZBr>TmM
$wc-vf$6rq[Ds?UnN
$wc-vf$6rq[Ds?UnN
$wc-vf$6rr[Ds@UnN
-%k5$n,>zzdL!H^vV
%wd-vf%6sr\Ds@VoN
&ye.xh&8ts]EtAWpP
&ye/xh&8tt]FuBWpP
(!g0zj(:vu_GwCYrR
(!g0zj(:vu_HwCYrR
)!g1zj(:vv`HwDZrR
)!h1!k):wv`HwDZsS
*"h2!k);wwaIxEZsS
*"i2!k*;xwaIxE[tS
*#i2"l*<xwaIyE[tT
*#i3"l*<xxbJyF[tT
*6"F5%=O11u]2Yo-g
,$j4#m+=yycKzG]uU
,%k5$n,>zycL!H]vV
.'m6&p.@"!eM"I_xX
/'n7&p/@#"fN#J`yX
:2xB1!9K--qY.Uk)c
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:2yB1!9K.-qY.Uk)c
:2yB2":K.-qY.Uk*d
:3yC2":L..qZ/Vk*d
:3yC2":L..qZ/Vk*d
;3yC2":L..rZ/Vl*d
;4zC3#;M/.rZ0Vl+e
;4zC3#;M/.rZ0Vl+e
;4zD3#;M/.r[0Vl+e
?7#G6&>P22v^3Zo.h
?7#G6&>P22v^3Zo.h
?7#G6&>P22v^3Zp.h
?7#G6&>P32v^3Zp.h
?7$G6&>P32v^3Zp.h
?7$G7'?P32v^3Zp/i
?8$G7'?Q32v^3Zp/i
?8$Gn^v.jjS<k8MfF
?8$H7'?Q32v_4Zp/i
@8$H7'?Q33w_4[q/i
@9%I8(@R43w`5[q0j
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[S?cRBZlNN8zOv2J*
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[S@cRBZlON8zOv2J*
[T@cSC[mON8zPv2K+
[T@cSC[mON8zPv2K+
[T@dSC[mOO9!Pw2K+
\kW!jZr*ffP8g4IbB
\T@dSC[mOO9!Pw2K+
\T@dSC[mOO9!Pw3K+
\T@dSC[mOO9!Pw3K+
\T@dSC[mOO9!Pw3K+
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]VBeUE]oQP:"Qx4M-
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`YEhXH`rTS=&U!7P0
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`YEiXH`rTT=&U"7P0
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+$j3#m+=yxbJyF\uU
+$j4#m+=yxbKzF\uU
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aZFiYIasUT>&U"8Q1
What you see above is a snippet of the passwords that each computer generates and writes to AD and then sorted through PowerShell to show the similarities/identicals. I'm only running this on 300ish systems and they seem to be relatively close.
As you stated, I'm not sure if the number generators you provided (which were awesome btw) are necessary but unless I'm implementing the Randomize/Rnd functions completely wrong, these passwords seem to be WAY to close for comfort. I think I'm going
to try a variation of the GUID usage and run it for awhile to see how "frequent" passwords appear similarly:
Low = 33
High = 122
For i=0 to 100
WScript.Echo "END: " & GetRandomInt(Low,High)
Next
Function GetRandomInt(iLowPart,iHighpart)
iLowPartLen = Len(iLowPart)
iHighPartLen = Len(iHighPart)
' Loop through dynamically generated GUIDs until we find a string of characters that meet the criteria
Do
' Generate a starting point to read out of a 32-bit GUID string
Randomize
iGuidLow = Int(((32 - 8) - 1 + 1) * Rnd + 1)
' Generate a GUID
objGuid = CreateObject("Scriptlet.TypeLib").Guid
' Strip out the dashes and braces and pull an 8-character section of the GUID from the provided starting point
strGuid = Mid(Replace(Replace(Replace(CStr(objGuid), "-", ""), "{", ""), "}", ""), iGuidLow, 8)
' Convert back to a number
iGuid = Abs(CLng("&h" & strGuid))
iGuidLen = Len(iGuid)
' Generate the span of characters to generate given the high/low vals
Randomize
iLengthVal = Int((iHighPartLen - iLowPartLen + 1) * Rnd + iLowPartLen)
' Loop through the GUID-fragment-converted-to-number to find a value between the given numeric span
For iStartPos=1 to iGuidLen
iSegment = CInt(Mid(iGuid, iStartPos, iLengthVal))
If iSegment >= iLowPart And iSegment <= iHighPart Then
Exit Do
Else
If iSegment > iHighPart Then
Exit For
End If
End If
Next
Loop Until iStartPos > iGuidLen
GetRandomInt = iSegment
End Function

How to define "leading" random number in Infoset fpr parallel processing

Hello,
in Bankanalyzer we use an Infoset which consists of a selection across 4 ODS tables to gather data.
No matter which PACKNO fields we check or uncheck in the infoset definition screen (TA RSISET), the parallel frameworks always selects the same PACKNO field from one ODS table.
Unfortunately, the table that is selected by the framework is not suitable, because our
"leading" ODS table which holds most of our selection criteria is another one.
How to "convince" the parallel framework to select our leading table for the specification
of the PACKNO in addition (this would be times 20 faster due to better select options).
We even tried to assign "alternate characteristics" to the packnos we do not liek to use,
but it seems that note 999101 just fixes this for non-system-fields.
But for the random number a diffrent form routine is used in /BA1/LF3_OBJ_INDEX_READF01
fill_range_random instead of fill_range.
Has anyone managed to assign the PACKNO of his choice to the infoset selection?
How?
Thanks in advance
Volker

Well, it is a bit more complicated
ODS one, that the parallel framework selects for being the one to deliver the PACKNO
is about equal in size (~120GB each) to ODS two which has two significant field which cuts down the
amount of data to be retreived.
Currently we execute the generated SQL in the best possible manner (by faking some stats )
The problem is, that I'd like to have a Statement that has the PACKNO in the very same table.
PACKNO is a generated random number esp. to be used for parallel processing.
The job starts about 100 slaves
Each slave gets a packet to be processed from the framework, which is internaly represented
by a BETWEEN clause on this PACKNO. This is joined against ODS2 and then the selective fields
can be compared resultin in 90% of the already fetched rowes can be discarded.
Basicly it goes like
select ...
from
ods1 T_00,
ods2 T_01,
ods3 T_02,
ods4 T_03
where
... some key equivalence join-conditions ...
AND T_00.PACKNO BETWEEN '000000' and '000050' -- very selective on T_00
AND T_01.TYPE = '202' -- selective Value 10% on second table
I'd trying to change this to
AND T_01.PACKNO BETWEEN '000000' and '000050'
AND T_01.TYPE = '202' -- selective Value 10%
so I can use a combined Index on T_01 (TYPE;PACKNO)
This would be times 10 more selective on the driving table and due to the fact,
that T_00 would be joined for just the rows I need, about a calculated time 20-30 faster.
It really boosts when I do this in sqlplus
Hope this clearyfies a bit.
Problem is, that I can not change the code either for doing the
build of the packets or the one that executes the application.
I need to change the Inofset, so that the framework decides to build
proper SQL with T_01.PACKNO instead of T_00.PACKNO.
Thanks a lot
Volker

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