Topic, Please help! (Flash AS2)

  Oh good! I'm not so stupid after all.
I got to go to bed now though, even though I get th day off school tomorrow. It's midnight here...

  If it's in the root then yes, if it's inside another movie clip its parent is that movieclip.

So, yes, I think.

  If it was on a movieclip placed the stage, would the parent be _root? I don't know much about that area of actionscript.

For now I'm not actually working on ASCIIsnake, and I don't know if I will for a long time...

  You can, but you have to adjust their depth first, otherwise it won't work. (at least, that's how it goes down in mx04)

just use a

/*your mc name*/.swapDepth(/*parent of your mc*/.getNextHighestDepth());

right before you use the removeMovieClip();

  Yes, you can...which is how mine should have worked, but failed instead!

  Oh, that's quite good. I didn't realise you could use removeMovieClip for movieclips that you had not created in run-time.

  How about:

onEnterFrame=function()
{
if(score>=target)
play()
}

And the hittest (on the movieclip):

if(name1.hitTest(name2))
{
++_root.score
this.removeMovieClip //after ++_root.score
}

  @gecko
When create you "ASCIIsnake"?
Or you dont create because you already created a game called "Path 4 Mouse"?

  That's one happy man...

  i can help!!!
Omg! i can help!
mail me :D

  When using code inside a movieclip, make sure anything you link to that is on the main scene (such as variables and other movieclips) has "_root." before it.

So for example:
score = 15;

becomes...

_root.score = 15;

Maybe you knew that already, and maybe that's not the problem.

  It seems that it doesn't work inside movieclips...

  i always wondered how to make a constant checker...thanks!
[edit] @jp: i think that is what play does, must be another peice of code on another frame...

  Thanks Captain_404! That worked perfectly!

Here's the .fla file.

Before you ask, I didn't program the snake myself, but I plan to program everything else myself. Thanks for your help guys!

  I would like to see the rest of your code aswell..

  gecko, where in your code do you change the value of the "score" variable ?

  Yes, that is correct. If you want your code to check constantly you'll need to put it inside an onEnterFrame function.

Like so:

onEnterFrame = function() {
//do stuff
}

  Thank for your help, but it still doesn't quite work. Even though the score now starts at 0, when I get some food, the game still wont play...

Here's my code now:


I also tried it with a ; as well.

Maybe it's because the code only checks once, and it should be constantly checking somehow.

  I don't think it does, as far as I know this is programming syntax universal to most languages.

I'm stuck using mx04 (about F7) until I get some decent cash flow though, so really I have no clue if it works for f8+

  Doesn't that depend on your version of flash, Captain?
That code would work in flash 8. It's a nice habit to use == and ;'s though.

  should be

if (score == target) {

one = tells flash to make one value equal to another
two ='s tells flash to check if one variable is already equal to another

  So, I'm making a game called ASCIIsnake, and I have two variables, one called score and the other called target. Here is the code I'm having problems with:



When the snake eats some food, the score goes up by one.
This code makes the score go to one anyway, and it doesn't play. Can anybody help?