Tile by Tile movement?

At the monent my tile based game has pixel by pixel movment. Which means my character moves at 3 pixels per frame. But what i want to know how to do is. Tile by tile movement. Like in Final Fantasy 6 where you press the direction you want to move in and the character moves at 3 pixels per frame tile it reaches the the center of the tile in the direction pressed.

Any help would be most appretiated.

Thanks in Advance

well that is not difficult for example if you tiles are 18x18 then you can move the sprite 2 times with step of 9 (9+9=18) or 9 times with step of 2 or 3 times with step of 6, or 6 times with step of 3 you can do this as follows:

in the hero movie clip:
1. get the keypress and direction of move with onClipEvent (enterFrame). It is important to get this direction only if the the _currantframe==1 for example:

Code:

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onClipEvent (enterFrame){
if (this._currantframe==1){

if (Key.isDown (Key.RIGHT)){dir="right";}

}}

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2. frame 1: stop()
3. frame2:

Code:

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count+=step;
if ( dir == "left"){this._x-=step;} else
if ( dir == "right"){this._x+=step;} else
if ( dir == "up"){this._y-=step;} else
if ( dir == "down"){this._y+=step;}

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4. frame 3:

Code:

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if ( count >=18){
count=0;
this.gotoAndStop(1);}
else{
gotoAndPlay (2);
}

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hope that helps. the variable step could be 2,6,3,9

ms

Thanks Mad-Sci looks like it will solve my prob.

ThankS again