Flipping Coins

[richmond62]

As bog-basic as you can get . . .
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[richmond62]

I was motivated to do this by this:

https://live-code.net/livecode-tutorial.html

18. A Coin Flip App

And mainly because I felt that author's way of doing things was needlessly clunky (feel free to disagree).

It uses referenced internet images so:

1. It assumes that all people trying this sort of thing out have 24/7 internet access.

2. That URL (http://live-code.net/heads.jpg) will be there in perpetuity.

I also felt that resultant stack left a bit to be desired aesthetically:
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[richmond62]

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Improved version.

[tperry2x]

Here's one where you don't even need to specify the name of your coin images, and don't need multiple if else statements either.

Added a couple more coins and the "flip" button always chooses a different coin image from one that was last shown.

Coin Flipper v2.oxtstack

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