After checking Shane's code for the framework "GameplayKit"

I made Apple's example in Objective-C to ASOC.

Applescript:

use framework "Foundation"
use framework "GameplayKit"
use scripting additions

(** Objective-C
* Reference: https://developer.apple.com/documentation/gameplaykit/gkgaussiandistribution?language=objc
* GKRandomSource *random = [[GKRandomSource alloc] init];
* GKRandomDistribution *dice3d6;
* dice3d6 = [[GKGaussianDistribution alloc]
* initWithRandomSource:random lowestValue:3 highestValue:18];
* // Roll the dice...
* int diceRoll = [dice3d6 nextInt];
*)

set randomSource to current application's GKRandomSource's alloc()'s init()
set dice3d6 to current application's GKGaussianDistribution's alloc()'s initWithRandomSource:randomSource lowestValue:3 highestValue:18

return (dice3d6's nextInt()) as integer

Applescript:

set randomSource to current application's GKRandomSource's alloc()'s init()
set shuffled to current application's GKShuffledDistribution's alloc()'s initWithRandomSource:randomSource lowestValue:1 highestValue:6

-- return (shuffled's nextInt()) as integer

-- Log the output of 100
set shuffleDist to current application's GKShuffledDistribution's d6
repeat with i from 1 to 100
   log {shuffleDist's nextInt() as integer}
end repeat

Applescript:

-- Reference: https://developer.apple.com/documentation/gameplaykit/gkrandomsource/1501128-arraybyshufflingobjectsinarray
-- Returns an array whose contents are the same as those of the specified array, but in a random order determined by the random source.
set theArray to {1,2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9}
set theArray to current application's NSArray's arrayWithArray:theArray
set randomSource to current application's GKRandomSource's alloc()'s init()
set shuffled to randomSource's arrayByShufflingObjectsInArray:theArray
return shuffled as list

Last edited by Fredrik71 (2020-10-06 03:08:53 pm)