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- blackhornet
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Look at the LiteTween plugin
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You should consider using the SpriteFont plugin instead. The Text object is browser dependent, and things can shift based on the browser used. Also fonts are system dependent, so the font you pick may not be available on the end-users device, and it will be substituted (and again not format nicely).
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You're welcome. For any more specific help you'd have to post your CAPX.
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I can't possibly know where you need to put PatternGen.Pattern in your code. You need it at the point where it is appropriate. Groups are only activated by name, that's it.
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Assuming you have 20 groups, then you can use my previous screen shot to automatically set up the pattern, on startup, then you call PatternGen.Pattern whenever you need to turn the next group on. If you need to turn the others off first, just use a similar For loop to turn ALL off, then just the one you want on.
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- blackhornet
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Sample:

PatGen2.capx
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New -> Template: Physics Puzzle
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Use 'For Each' to pick each 'sawbase' and spawn/pin.
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You can't address them, you get them one at a time as needed with PatterGen.Pattern.

Try the above example and you'll see it randomly returns i1..20.
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I haven't used PatternGen but this looks like what you want.

<img src="http://blackhornettechnologies.com/Construct2Stuff/PatGen.jpg" border="0" />

There doesn't appear to be an expression for detecting a group's state. You'd have to keep track of that yourself.
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Here's one way: global hud

Personally, I prefer to build the HUD dynamically in code, but it's really up to you.
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There's a couple of RandomArray plugins you can use. See this thread: random numbers