Perchance - Create a Random Text Generator
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This is a Lemmy Community for perchance.org, a platform for sharing and creating random text generators.
Feel free to ask for help, share your generators, and start friendly discussions at your leisure :)
This community is mainly for discussions between those who are building generators. For discussions about using generators, especially the popular AI ones, the community-led Casual Perchance forum is likely a more appropriate venue.
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Perchance is built on JS. Code blocks are
[JavaScript expressions]
. Functions just havefn() => JavaScript code
in them. Plus, you could just put a script tag in the HTML of the page and put JS direct in there if you wanted to. So yeah, you can do loops as usual. 👍This also means you can call something like the image generator with just a simple js object, normal strings, and so on. Which can make things a lot easier and encapsulated.
Personally, I'd write the image function as not changing values, and just creating the needed HTML and returning that. But you can do things however you want to.
I'm not sure I fully understood, but I got the jist ;p
To generate a random value from a list, access it with
.selectOne
to get a random item, or.evaluateItem
to get a finalised string value. And store that in a variable. So likerow_animal = animals.evaluateItem
. Then use that in the prompt you send to the image generator function. If you want that to change between rows, after a row ends just run that code again to grab a new random item.Thank you, I didn't understand everything in the last part, but I'll rewrite that stuff with proper JavaScript then, it shouldn't be that hard!