Random Numbers and Timers

MIT App Inventor Help
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Hey all

I wonder if you clever people can help, I am doing a short App Inventor course with TY students (Ireland) and have the idea for a fun app where they

Press a button and it gives them a 'coolness rating out of 100'
However OnClick I want this to cycle through (a loop) of 10 random numbers stoppign on the 10th one - this gives them their result !!

VERY simple, a Variable, a random number, a count and a delay (to give time to read it!)

But stone me this is giving me some trouble - I could write this in any manner of languages, but App Inventor is giving me grief, when I click my button I get one ONE number displayed, not the other 10 in the loop, as for the delay (simple enough ) i cant fathom it out.

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As I say over you you clever people and thank you for your help in advance.

Cheers

Tim

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As Eric Morecambe once said (paraphrasing)

"you have all the right blocks, but not necessarily in the right order"

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set your clock interval as you wish

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TIMAI2 - you are the man (or the woman !!...apologies)

I loved Eric Morcombe, hey knew his code ;0)
Thank you I will try that

Fantastic name by the way
(from a fellow Tim)

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Worked a DREAM thank you so much...

Here s a slightly different yet related point ... I nlw have 3 labels showing 3 values ALL on the count and across x2 clocks , the centre of the 3 is the 'cool reading' it looks and works ace , except the layout, i want the 3 labels spread across the screen, but they are all crushed to the left - i have used a horizontal arrangement, with 3 horizontal arrangements within (giving the look of 3 columns) - these are all aligned to center , yet on phone all is left of screen .

Any ideas are welcomed, but thank you so much already.

Tim

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You shouldn't need the 3 horizontal arrangements....

Outer Horizontal Arrangement:
Align centre/centre
Width Fill Parent (or Width percent, e.g. 90)

Labels
Width Fill parent
Text Align centre

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(You might want Screen1 Align centre if using width percent on the HA, or put the outer HA in a vertical arrangement and centre that, with width fill parent)
I have used colours to show the labels