breakout question

I'm stuck. I'm creating a breakout type game and I am trying to make it where when your paddle is in a certain frame you can shoot fireballs upward. I got it all working fine but, if you hold the shoot button down (space) it just duplicates infinity amount of fireballs. =/

Can anyone please help me?

You need to use a counter to wait a bit after shooting. Heres some sample code to give the idea

Code:

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var can_shoot:Boolean = true;

on Keypress... // whatever, I forgot as2
{
  if(can_shoot==true)
  {
      //shooting code
      // .....
      can_shoot = false;
      setInterval(resetShooting,20) //I forgot if this duration was seconds or miliseconds
  }
}

function resetShooting()
{
  can_shoot = true;
}

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