[F8] Shooting game bullet questions

I am making a 2d eagle-eyed view shooting game that uses space to shoot. (The bullet is a long straight line)

I have a few simple questions I hope someone could answer for me:

1. How do I add a 'reload' effect so that someone playing the game can't just hold down space for a rapid fire?

2. How do I make the bullet stop at one person in a situation like this:
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noone can help?

1. how are you using the space are you saying onPress, or onKeyDown ?

for number 2,

just use a hitTest, if (yourBullet.hitTest Target){
badGuy.removeMovieClip
}
something to that effect

1. onkeydown
2. that would remove the whole bullet

1. I usually make a blank MC and use it as a controller as something like this:

Code:

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onClipEvent(enterFrame){
        if(Key.isDown(Key.SPACE)){ //Or whatever key you're using
                if(shotCount <= clipSize){
                        _root.attachMovie("mc.bullet", "bullet"+shotCount, shotCount+buffer);//Whatever you've
                        SHOOT SHOOT SHOOT SHOOT;//done to make it
                        SHOOT SHOOT SHOOT SHOOT;//shoot. It doesn't
                        SHOOT SHOOT SHOOT SHOOT;//have to look like this.
                        shotCount++;
                } else {
                        reload == true
                }
        }
}
if(reload == true){
        if(reloadComplete == reloadTIME){//Are we finished reloading?
                shotCount=0;//reset
                reload = false;//we finished reloading
        } else {
                reloadComplete ++;//still reloading
        }
}

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I find the problem with onKeyDown is that it sometimes goes funky chicken compared to the frame rate. With onClipEvent(enterFrame), the whole process is covered once per frame.

2. Just remove the movieclip

oh ok thanks!