IBMedia | 12 years ago | 2 comments | 2.3K views
The 2nd slider of the Fliexibility property does not appear to do anything when you set the 3rd Slider to a negative value for using words.
Setting the 3rd slider to -2 or a greater negative number, makes the words appear randomly ... but always in the same order.
Could the 2nd slider be used to create a "seed position" for the first word of the random words?
Could the negative value of the 3rd slider be used for some "seed position" if something like -7, -12 etc is used? Maybe for the last word?
>but always in the same order.
This is not true. When you set the 3rd slider to -7 another random order is used than when using -12.
In other words: the 3rd slider is the random seed.
michiel, 12 years ago
I was using test string of
Do you need an
awesome program
for creating 3D videos?
And the first few tests I did, I always seemed to get 3D as the first word being displayed, but I had only tested 3 settings, and I don't remember which settings except I do remember testing -2 and -4
I was doing my testing a bit randomly. Really, I should have done my testing in a more structured way.
After your comment, I retested with every number, and you are correct, it does re-seed based on the 3rd slider
There is still the issue using the 2nd and 3rd slider.
If I use the 2nd slider to set the first word 0.5 and set the 3rd slider to -1, then the first word displayed is "awesome" - exactly as I would expect.
If I use the 2nd slider to set the first word 0.8 and set the 3rd slider to -1, then the first word displayed is "creating" - exactly as I would expect.
If I set the 3rd slider to -2, -3, -4 etc, then the words are displayed starting at a random position in the text and the setting of the 2nd slider is ignored.
3rd slider -2 starts at "3D"
3rd slider -3 starts at "need"
3rd slider -4 starts at "3D"
3rd slider -5 starts at "3D"
3rd slider -6 starts at "3D"
3rd slider -7 starts at "Do"
3rd slider -8 starts at "an"
You can see from that analysis why I felt the 3rd slider wasn't working.
Anyway, not a major issue ... thanks for responding to me earlier.
IBMedia, 12 years ago
