Help please w/Taipei-type game

So I'm coding a Taipei/MahJongg-style game (although a scaled-down version of one), and gotten fairly far along by modeling my code after William Warby's well-documented "Matching Pairs" card game (and the apparently identical game that 'Joe banner' has posted as his own as well).

I need, however, to get the "tiles" in the Taipei game to only match up when they have three or more sides free and if there are no tiles stacked on top of them. I figured that a hitTest loop wouldn't be too processor demanding if it only tested when the user activated the mouseDown state, so I made a little loop to test if the clicked tile touched any other tiles on the board, and if so to increment a variable by 1.

The tiles are all in a movie clip called "Taipei" that is on the main stage. Each of the 30 tiles is named "Tile"+n.

code:

---

onClipEvent (load) {

	tileTouch = 0;

}

onClipEvent (mouseDown) {

	for (var cn = 0; cn<31; cn++) {

		if (cn<10) {

			if (this.hitTest(_parent.Card0+"cn")) {

				tileTouch = tileTouch+1;

			}

			} else {

				if (this.hitTest(_parent.Card+"cn")) {

					tileTouch = tileTouch+1;

				}

			}trace(cardTouch);

			 tileTouch = 0;

		}

	}

---

The problem is, even though I have made sure that the tiles overlap slightly, I never get a value for "cn" except for 0, so I can't eventually make the tileSelect function reject any tiles with a tileTouch >1.

I've tried my best to make this clear as possible; if it's not clear enough, please leave a reply and I'll try to clear any fuzzy spots up.

I'm truly puzzled here, so any help would be appreciated.

I think you are doing stuff wrong with hitTest, try this:

code:

---

Taipei.onMouseDown = function()

{



for (var cn = 0; cn<31; cn++) 

{

if(this['Tile'+cn].hitTest(this._xmouse, this._ymouse))

{

   this.tileTouch ++;

}

}

---

is that what you want?

I should paste this in the Main Stages's Actions layer?

or you can use onClipevent on the mc

onClipEvent(mouseDown)

{

for (var cn = 0; cn<31; cn++)
{
if(this['Tile'+cn].hitTest(this._xmouse, this._ymouse))
{
this.tileTouch ++;
}
}

same difference

Thank you for your help so far; I still can't get this to work.

What I have now is, in my "Taipei" mc, the following code:

Code:

---

onClipEvent (load) {
        cardTouch = 0;
}

       
onClipEvent(mouseDown) {
    //for (var cn = 0; cn<31; cn++) {
        //if (cn<=10) {
                //if (this['Card0'+cn].hitTest(this._xmouse, this._ymouse)) {
                        //this.cardTouch++;
                //}
        //} else {
                if (this['Card'+cn].hitTest(this._xmouse, this._ymouse)) {
                        this.cardTouch++;
                }trace (cardTouch);
                //cardTouch = 0;
        //}
//}
}

---

But variable 'cn' still does not increment. I clicked on the "Taipei" window twice and my trace command traced 40 zeroes..
Do you have any ideas what I'm doing wrong?

Thanks!

Arrgh! still not working! I tried ro a couple of hours last night before I wend to bed and managed to accomplish just about nothing. Anyone have and ideas that can help, please?