Say you want to show three elements in line on the screen, but randomly determine which one appears to the left, to the right or in the middle. What you need to do is group them within a Selector
element and use its command shuffle
:
newCanvas("green", 100, 100)
.settings.css("background", "green")
,
newCanvas("red", 100, 100)
.settings.css("background", "red")
,
newCanvas("blue", 100, 100)
.settings.css("background", "blue")
,
getCanvas("green")
.settings.after(
getCanvas("red")
.settings.after( getCanvas("blue") )
)
.print()
,
newSelector("canvas")
.settings.add( getCanvas("green") , getCanvas("red") , getCanvas("blue") )
.settings.disableClicks()
.shuffle()
If you want to later check the result positions of the elements, you can use the test command index
on the Selector element. In the example above green, red and blue are initially added to the selector with indices 0, 1 and 2 respectively (i.e., the order in which they appear in add
) and initially appear in this order from left to right, so you know that whichever element ends up with index 0 after the shuffle is the left-most element and 2 is the right-most element.