"Input" Text Help

[blindbaker49]

I was just playing around in Flash, but I came across a problem.

I want a ball to move at the speed the user enters, and I put this code in for the ball:

onClipEvent (load) {
xv = 0;
yv = 0;
g = 0.6;
f = 0.9;
_x = 0;
go = false;
radius = _width/2;
}
onClipEvent (enterFrame) {
if (go) {
xv = _root.speed;
yv += g;
if (_y+radius>=400) {
_y = 400-radius;
if (yv <= 1){
yv = 0;
g = 0;
} else {
yv = -yv+5;
}
}
_x += xv;
_y += yv;
}
}

But when I test it, nothing happens, the ball just bounces in place. Help?

[blindbaker49]

Sorry for double posting, but I have the instance name of the input text box as "speed" and the instance name of the ball as "ball." The go button is "gobutton."

[LostVoices]

At 5/18/09 06:53 PM, blindbaker49 wrote: Sorry for double posting, but I have the instance name of the input text box as "speed" and the instance name of the ball as "ball." The go button is "gobutton."

because you have an if statement saying if(go){

well go is false so it won't run

[blindbaker49]

At 5/18/09 07:07 PM, LostVoices wrote:

At 5/18/09 06:53 PM, blindbaker49 wrote: Sorry for double posting, but I have the instance name of the input text box as "speed" and the instance name of the ball as "ball." The go button is "gobutton."

because you have an if statement saying if(go){

well go is false so it won't run

I said it bounces, and that's not the problem. I have a button that makes go true.

[LostVoices]

I said it bounces, and that's not the problem. I have a button that makes go true.

have you tried tracing go and is the button referencing to the go properly?

[blindbaker49]

At 5/18/09 07:12 PM, LostVoices wrote:

I said it bounces, and that's not the problem. I have a button that makes go true.

have you tried tracing go and is the button referencing to the go properly?

The problem isn't that nothing's happening. The ball bounces up and down just fine, but it doesn't move left or right. The problem isn't the "go," it's the "speed."

[CrustySheet]

The problem isn't that nothing's happening. The ball bounces up and down just fine, but it doesn't move left or right. The problem isn't the "go," it's the "speed."

is the ball bouncing an animation or is that code making the ball bounce?

[blindbaker49]

It's the code.

[AlexisGOAR]

At 5/18/09 07:24 PM, blindbaker49 wrote: It's the code.

is it as2 or as3 .... be sure to put what it is, but I'm sure it is as2 right?

[Yambanshee]

trace all the key variables to make sure they work