# Random motion help

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/random-motion-help/5039>\
**Category:** Uncategorized\
**Created:** [August 29, 2002, 5:02pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/random-motion-help/5039 "2002-08-29T17:02:26Z")\
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**Author:** ![Ryan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/a8b319/32.png) [@Ryan](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Ryan)\
**Post date:** [August 29, 2002, 5:02pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/random-motion-help/5039/1 "2002-08-29T17:02:26Z")

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for some reason my computer is refusing to let me do this. i used the random motion tutorial in the ([http://www.kirupa.com/developer/actionscript/random.asp](http://www.kirupa.com/developer/actionscript/random.asp)) and my movie clips are going nowhere. i downloaded the fla files to my hard drive, as specified, and when i viewed them i got nothing as well. what am i doing wrong?

any help is always greatly appreciated. thank you

=ryan=

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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:** [August 29, 2002, 5:13pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/random-motion-help/5039/2 "2002-08-29T17:13:36Z")

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Which version of Flash are you using? If you use MX, that tutorial won’t work, it is for Flash 5. Supra did write an updated code for MX though, that can be found here [http://www.kirupa.com/developer/mx/random\_motionMX.asp](http://www.kirupa.com/developer/mx/random_motionMX.asp)

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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:** [August 29, 2002, 5:20pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/random-motion-help/5039/3 "2002-08-29T17:20:06Z")

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yes i was using mx. now i feel like quite the stupid one. lol. thanks again

=ryan=

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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:** [August 29, 2002, 5:22pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/random-motion-help/5039/4 "2002-08-29T17:22:24Z")

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Don’t feel stupid, I did the same thing, how do you think I knew how to fix it? 🙂

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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:** [August 30, 2002, 8:00am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/random-motion-help/5039/5 "2002-08-30T08:00:17Z")

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why doesn’t that thing work in mx… i haven’t heard of any problems concerning flash 5 documents in mx, it even lets you back save…syntax wise there wasn’t much of a change from 5 to MX… hrmmm im confused… 🙂

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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:** [August 30, 2002, 8:52am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/random-motion-help/5039/6 "2002-08-30T08:52:23Z")

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I think there’s just a few minor things with functions and whatnot that don’t transfer well from 5 to MX.

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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:** [August 30, 2002, 8:55am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/random-motion-help/5039/7 "2002-08-30T08:55:04Z")

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yeah i looked at the code and that seemed as though it was the problem… oh well, they should make things backwards compatible