How to make an object randomly appear if someone clicks?

[Zumb3041]

Hey I've been messing around trying to figure out how to get things to work at random and I'm not having much luck.. so how do random events work? I want to click something and make it have a random chance of making an object appear.

[Neildo64]

When clicking, you could set a counter/alterable value to a random value (for instance random(3) will return 0, 1, or 2) and after clicking, if that counter is equal to 1 --> create your random object and set the counter back to 0. Now your events are ready to accept another click and possibly create another random object. If you wanted your objects to appear in random locations, you could first create the object offscreen and then set its X and Y positions to random numbers within the boundaries that you want the object to appear. Such as Create Object at -50,-50 ---> set object's X position to random(300)+10 ---> set object's Y position to random(100)+10. Now it will look like the object randomly appeared somewhere on the screen between the areas defined by those values.

[Zumb3041]

That seems to work fine, thanks for the help!