Randomize sound Effect and play effect from a spinnerList

Question

I have two separate questions:
I have 8 different sound effects and a spinner list, in simpler terms, what do I need to do to assign 1 sound effect to each of the selections on the spinnerList, and then have the corresponding sound effect played when the user presses a button?
Secondly, what do I need to do to make it so that every time a dofferent button is pressed, it plays a random one of those 8 sound effects?
Some sample code would be great. Thanks.

Answer 1

The basic approach to picking something randomly:
  // here's my array of items to choose from
                                        var strings:Array = ["a", "b", "c", "d", "e", "f", "g", "h"];
  // pick one of the items randomly
  // Math.random() gets a random # n where 0 <= n < 1
  // Multiply by array length to get a random index
  // Math.floor() makes it an integer index where 0 <= n < Array.length
                                        var s:String = strings[(Math.floor(Math.random() * strings.length))];
HTH,
-- Tom