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I thought it should spin at least 3 times, but no more than 10, hence this line: In all of the board games I ever played that involved spinners, it was part of the fun to spin it fast and slow. Now the question was how many times should the spinner spin? It seemed boring to me to always have it spin the same number of times. Notice that before the spinning starts, I hide all the triangles. That way, I could change the delay once in the first line after the mouseUp. I didn't want to have to change the delay 6 times (once for each triangle), so instead I just created a variable called varDelay.

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Now, I wasn't sure how long the delay should be and so I knew I would need a lot of trial and error to get it just right. As you can see, starting with yellow, it shows and then hides each triangle with a short delay in-between. The repeat loop is the heart of the code.

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So, let's dissect this code a little bit to see how it works. If varNumber = 6 then show graphic 'purple' If varNumber = 5 then show graphic 'blue' If varNumber = 4 then show graphic 'orange'

If varNumber = 2 then show graphic 'green'

If varNumber = 1 then show graphic 'yellow' So, I created a button named 'Spin' on the card and added the following script: To create the illusion of spinning, all I do in the script is to show and hide the six triangles in a 'strategic' order. Oh, I also created a seventh polygon - a six-sided polygon with a gray background - to act as a background (doing so is optional, but I liked having it for aesthetic reasons). These names will be important because they will be referenced in the upcoming scripts. in the name field Basic Properties of the Property Inspector. Next, name each triangle object accordingly by clicking on each and entering 'yellow,' 'green,' etc. Now, you would think that you would find color names like yellow, green, etc., but you'll have to choose between options like banana and lemon. I always like choosing from the 'Crayons' option. Choose the BackgroundColor block for Fill (the square block on the right). You do this by selecting a triangle and going to the Colors & Patterns window in the Property Inspector. I chose yellow, green, red, orange, blue, and purple. Next, give each triangle a distinctive color. This makes the a six-sided set of pie shapes reminiscent of the Trivial Pursuit game token. Then, move these three triangles into their positions around the center point formed by the first three triangles. The rotation option is also found in Basic Properties of the Property Inspector for the object. Now, you will need to rotate this triangle 60 degrees. (A good tip to remember is that when an object is selected, you can use the arrow keys to move an object pixel by pixel.)ĭuplicate one of the triangles to make a fourth. You can then rearrange these three triangles so that they touch at a center point. Next, with the triangle object selected, you can quickly choose 'Edit > Duplicate' twice. Plus, you will need all of the six triangles to eventually be opaque anyway in order to show colors. It's also a good idea while you are in Basic Properties to make the triangle 'opaque,' if only because it will be much easier to grab hold of the object and move it around later. When you add a polygon to your card, it defaults to a 12-sided polygon, but you have the option to change the number of sides to three in the Basic Properties window of the Property Inspector.

I started by building six triangles using LiveCode's polygon tool. This prototype took about 30 minutes to build, so yes, it is very simple.