Perchance - Create a Random Text Generator
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The issue is this line in your lists editor:
This means that every time you use
s
it'll select a new random item frommob
. The reason for that is because you've mades
equal to[mob.selectOne]
instead ofmob.selectOne
. The square brackets around it effectively make it "dynamically fetched" each time you accesss
.So you need to add
[s = mob.selectOne, ""]
in a place where it'll get "executed" with every generate button click, so a news
is generated with each click, but it stays the same when executing all of the other square blocks that come after it.So you could add this line before
[output]
in your HTML editor:Each time your "Generate" button is clicked, the
update()
function is called, and that causes all the square blocks in the HTML code to be executed from top to bottom. So it ensures that we've randomly selected amob
item and put it in thes
variable before theoutput
list is executed (which uses thes
variable).Here's a fixed example: https://perchance.org/ylx7fmwpql#edit
(This issue has unfortunately been the source of a lot of problems for newbies learning Perchance, so you're not alone in being confused by this!)
Thank you so much!! Good to know I'm not the only one though lol
That's a great answer! I've never thought of these solutions in a while, maybe even add a warning for that so other newbies could know easily.