How to stop a random motion: need help

Hi there,

I followed a random motion tutorials found somewhere on the web. I have a small word made of 10x10 black squares. When someone clicks the word, all the squares start moving around randomly.

What I want to do now is when someone clicks on a moving square, all the squares move back to a given position (obviously, they stop moving randomly).

Is this possible? This is the code I'm using:

Code:

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onClipEvent (load) {
        //data you may want to change
        width = 500;
        height = 400;
        speed = Math.round(Math.random()*1)+1;

}
onClipEvent (enterFrame) {
        //x movement
        if (x_new>this._x) {
                sign_x = 1;
        } else {
                sign_x = -1;
        }
        dx = Math.abs(x_new-this._x);
        if ((dx>speed) || (dx<-speed)) {
                this._x += sign_x*speed;
        } else {
                x_new = Math.random()*width;
        }
        //y movement
        if (y_new>this._y) {
                sign_y = 1;
        } else {
                sign_y = -1;
        }
        dy = Math.abs(y_new-this._y);
        if ((dy>speed) || (dy<-speed)) {
                this._y += sign_y*speed;
        } else {
                y_new = Math.random()*height;
        }
}

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I know that I should have it has a function, but I don't even know how to make this bit of code in a function :tired:

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Just a guess without making a sample you could try something like this

Code:

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onClipEvent (load) {
        //data you may want to change
        width = 500;
        height = 400;
        speed = Math.round(Math.random()*1)+1;
        var StartX:Number = this._x;
        var StartY:Number = this._y;

}
onClipEvent (enterFrame) {
        //x movement
        if (x_new>this._x) {
                sign_x = 1;
        } else {
                sign_x = -1;
        }
        dx = Math.abs(x_new-this._x);
        if ((dx>speed) || (dx<-speed)) {
                this._x += sign_x*speed;
        } else {
                x_new = Math.random()*width;
        }
        //y movement
        if (y_new>this._y) {
                sign_y = 1;
        } else {
                sign_y = -1;
        }
        dy = Math.abs(y_new-this._y);
        if ((dy>speed) || (dy<-speed)) {
                this._y += sign_y*speed;
        } else {
                y_new = Math.random()*height;
        }
}

onClipEvent(mouseDown){
        delete onEnterFrame;
        this._x = StartX;
        this._y = StartY;
}

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Hmm the movie clip dows "jump" to another place, but it keeps moving. I asked about the functiona because I read somewhere it must de done with 'delete', but it was something like "delete this.onEnterFream" - but, like I said, I have no idea on how to make this into a function. :rolleyes: