Action Script Mc Movement

[kamakazi-AKA-crazy]

I want to make an rpg and i im having a problem making the movement look like i want it to.

i want when i am holding up for example, for a movieclip to play, but i want it to stop the mc as soon as a let go of up. so far i have 8 directional movement with a mc animation for the (left, right, down and up) movement.....the problem is that even when i let go of up the movie clip continues to play. with a stop it goes to the end, which is not what i want

heres my as code

onClipEvent (load) {
// Set the move speed
moveSpeed = 5;
}
onClipEvent (enterFrame) {

if (Key.isDown(Key.RIGHT)) {
this._x+=moveSpeed;
this.gotoAndStop (2); //frame two of my character is a right movement mc animation
^^that line of code is where i need help ( how do i make is so that when i let go of up the mc on that frame stops imedietly

}else if (Key.isDown(Key.LEFT)) {
this._x-=moveSpeed;
this.gotoAndStop (1); //frame one of my character is a left movement mc animation

} if (Key.isDown(Key.DOWN)) {
this._y+=moveSpeed;
this.gotoAndStop (3);

} else if (Key.isDown(Key.UP)) {
this._y-=moveSpeed;
this.gotoAndStop (4);
}
}

[Beavis-Love]

Im not a fequent ASer but would it not have something to do with _currentframe? Like if the current frame is 3 when it stops then gotoandstop on frame three, thats just the idea i bet u can figure the code out.

[Nuggs]

make a standing-still picture and place it on frame 5 with a stop; command. then add this to your script

onClipEvent (keyUp) {
this.gotoAndStop(5);
}

[Chrispington]

just put

}else {
"stop whatever you are talking about "
}

elses rock

[sinz3ro]

this code will work

onClipEvent(keyUp){
if(Key.getCode(Key.WHATEVERKEY)){
_root.characterinstance.mcofmovement.stop(
);
}
}

[Skanky-Andy]

onClipEvent (load) {
// Set the move speed
moveSpeed = 5;
}
onClipEvent (enterFrame) {

if (Key.isDown(Key.RIGHT)) {
this._x+=moveSpeed;
this.gotoAndStop (2); //frame two of my character is a right movement mc animation
^^that line of code is where i need help ( how do i make is so that when i let go of up the mc on that frame stops imedietly

}else if (Key.isDown(Key.LEFT)) {
this._x-=moveSpeed;
this.gotoAndStop (1); //frame one of my character is a left movement mc animation

} if (Key.isDown(Key.DOWN)) {
this._y+=moveSpeed;
this.gotoAndStop (3);

} if (Key.isDown(Key.UP)) {
this._y-=moveSpeed;
this.gotoAndStop (4);
} else if (!Key.isDown(Key.UP) && !Key.isDown(Key.LEFT) && !Key.isDown(Key.RIGHT) && !Key.isDown(Key.DOWN)) {
this.gotoAndStop (put the frame with the guy stopped number here);
}
}
}

[Skanky-Andy]

i put 3 ending brackets at the end by accident sorry

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