Need Help With Randomize Texture on touch

I am hoping someone might have some guidance for me on this one.

Basically, what I am trying to do is set a random texture to a prim when touched.
I have placed a few textures in the object and my script looks like this:

//script created by Artemis Cain
// 5-11-2006

list textures;
string random;

default
{
    
        state_entry()
    {
        textures = [1,2,3]; \\ these are the texture names in the objects inventory
    }

    touch_start(integer total_number)
    {
        llListRandomize (textures, 1); \\ trying to randomize the sequence of the textures
        random = llList2String (textures, 0); \\setting "random" to whatever is in space 0
        llSetTexture(random, ALL_SIDES); \\setting the random texture to the object
    }
}

the code compiles fine, but it always comes up as texture 1, which would make sense if I didn't want to randomize the list.

does anyone know of a way to pull a random number ie: 0, 1, or 2 in this case?
should I just generate a random number instead of randomizing the list?

any guidance is greatly appreciated!

-Art

You might want to just generate a random number. According to the wiki there is a problem with this ( I don't know myself, I am just reading the wiki, I am new to SL ) :

http://secondlife.com/badgeo/wakka.php?wakka=llListRandomize&show_comments=1#comments

I am not an experienced scripter so you might want someone else to comment on this ( that wiki entry hasn't been updated for a while)

Therein lies the problem. I can't figure out how to randomize the number.

This ought to work, though I haven't tested it in-world.

default
{
	state_entry()
	{
		
	}
	
	touch_start( integer num )
	{
		// Count the number of textures in the object's inventory.
		integer number_of_textures = llGetInventoryNumber( INVENTORY_TEXTURE ) ;
		
		// Generate a random integer between 0 and number_of_textures - 1 (inventory starts counting at 0).
		integer random = llFloor( llFrand( (float)number_of_textures ) ) ;
		
		// Set the texture to the desired randomly-found texture.
		llSetTexture( llGetInventoryName( INVENTORY_TEXTURE, random ), ALL_SIDES ) ;
	}
}

That looks like it works!

that has been bugging me for a while!

Thank you so much!

A quick and easy way to generate random integers between 0 and some integer number max_number is:

integer random = llFloor( llFrand( (float)max_number + 1.0 ) ) ;

There's a good description of this under the llFrand() entry in the wiki.