[MX] Bullet/Laser Problem

[5Five555]

I just want to do the simple press space and he shoots bullets thing. I have always done it where the codes will be in the guy and bullet movieclips. I recently learned to write codes on the main timeline. Right now the problem is when I press space, the visual bullet appears but it doesn't move up.

bulletcounter=1;
player_bullet._visible=false;
player_bullet._x=player._x;
player_bullet._y=player._y;
bullet_speed=5;
onEnterFrame = function() {
    player_bullet._y-=bullet_speed;
    if (key.isdown(key.space)) {
        bulletcounter++;
        player_bullet.duplicateMovieClip("bullet"+bulletcounter, bulletcounter);
        ["bullet"+bulletcounter]._visible=true;
    }
} 

The guy is called guy. The bullet is called player_bullet.

[mneil]

you'll need a little more code than that. We'll make another function for the bullet, an onEnterFrame, that will move the bullet and then remove it when it goes off stage so that it doesn't eat up precious processor power.

onEnterFrame = function() {
    player_bullet._y-=bullet_speed;
    if (key.isdown(key.space)) {
        bulletcounter++;
        bar bull:MovieClip = player_bullet.duplicateMovieClip("bullet"+bulletcounter, bulletcounter);
        bull._visible=true;
        bull.onEnterFrame = FIRE;
    }
} 
function FIRE(){
    this._y -= bullet_speed;
    if(this._y <= -50){
        this.removeMovieClip();
        delete this.onEnterFrame;
    }
}