# Question about Kirupa's Flash MX Random Motion tutorial

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/question-about-kirupas-flash-mx-random-motion-tutorial/9952>\
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**Created:** [December 21, 2002, 3:55pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/question-about-kirupas-flash-mx-random-motion-tutorial/9952 "2002-12-21T15:55:16Z")\
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**Author:** ![chris23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c5a1d2/32.png) [@chris23](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/chris23)\
**Post date:** [December 21, 2002, 3:55pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/question-about-kirupas-flash-mx-random-motion-tutorial/9952/1 "2002-12-21T15:55:16Z")

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Hi. I’m really enjoying the Flash MX tutorials on the Kirupa site.

I’m having a problem with the Random Motion tutorial, and I’m hoping someone can offer a solution. When I follow the tutorial guidelines, the movie doesn’t work. Moreover, when I download the \*fla file and run it, it doesn’t work either. I can see the various circles in the movie pane, but there is no motion.

Any suggestions? I can see the motion on the embedded movie on the tutorial page, but I can’t see it on versions I create on my computer. I’m running Flash MX on Windows 2000.

I’m new to Flash, so I might be overlooking something simple. Sigh.

Thanks in advance for any help.

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [December 21, 2002, 5:15pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/question-about-kirupas-flash-mx-random-motion-tutorial/9952/2 "2002-12-21T17:15:06Z")

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I appologize for that last post. I just found a page on the site that discusses some of the differences between Flash 5 and Flash MX and the way random motion is handled. I was previously looking at the Flash 5 code.

Here is the MX link for anyone else who has a similar mental burp: [http://www.kirupa.com/developer/mx/random\_motionMX.asp:sigh:](http://www.kirupa.com/developer/mx/random_motionMX.asp:sigh:)