Ignoring Key.isDown

[mkmetalhead]

I have a simple platformer at the moment and I am trying to trigger an event with an invisible rectangle. The hitTest works absolutely fine and it changes the variable I want it to change, but it is also supposed to gotoAndPlay an animation within the movieclip - but it is ignored because the arrow keys are telling the MC to play a different frame.

Is there anyway that I can get the MC to ignore keyboard input for the duration of around 40 frames within the MC? If not, is there another way around this problem?

Thanks in advance.

[swishcheese]

yeah there is a way. just make a variable called death, make its data type boolean, and set it false.

then in your code where you gotoAndPlay the person walking, put code like:

if(death == false){
gotoAndPlay("walk");
}

then, in the code where you hittest something like:

if(mc.hitTest(mc2)){
death = true;
gotoAndPlay("death");
}
}

[mkmetalhead]

Thankyou, it wasn't for a death animation, but I understood the idea and it's working now =]

[swishcheese]

At 8/13/09 05:30 PM, mkmetalhead wrote: Thankyou, it wasn't for a death animation, but I understood the idea and it's working now =]

alright, cool glad i could help.