Character Movement NEED HELP!

[ownator]

Okay, so I have an MC for my char, inside there are 4 frames, one with him facing left(idle), one facing right(idle), one facing left(running MC), and on facing right(running MC).

I have the stop action on all of the frames and on the running movieclips i have these two actions.

onClipEvent (enterFrame) {
	if (!Key.isDown(Key.RIGHT)) {
		_root.player.gotoAndStop(1);
	}
}

or...

onClipEvent (enterFrame) {
	if (!Key.isDown(Key.LEFT)) {
		_root.player.gotoAndStop(2);
	}
}

on the MC in the main scene, i have this action.

onClipEvent (load) {
	speed = 15;
}
onClipEvent (enterFrame) {
	if (Key.isDown(Key.UP)) {
		this._y -= speed;
		this.gotoAndStop(3);
	}
	if (Key.isDown(Key.DOWN)) {
		this._y += speed;
		this.gotoAndStop(4);
	}
	if (Key.isDown(Key.RIGHT)) {
		this._x += speed;
		this.gotoAndStop(3);
	}
	if (Key.isDown(Key.LEFT)) {
		this._x -= speed;
		this.gotoAndStop(4);
	}
}

The problem I have though is that when I press up or down, it goes to the right frame, but the movieclip doesn't play, it plays when i use right or left though... Also, how can I make it so it also plays the animation when you press 2 keys at a time eg. right+left.

[tonypa]

Maybe you need to check for both keys in running mc:

if (!Key.isDown(Key.RIGHT) && !Key.isDown(Key.UP)) {

[ownator]

that didn't change anything but for some reason now the right+up, right+down and the down ones work...

[WesIsGood]

Try replacing things like this ...

if (Key.isDown(Key.UP)) {
this._y -= speed;
this.gotoAndStop(3);
}

... with things like this ...

if (Key.isDown(Key.UP)&&(this.currentFrame != 3)) {
this._y -= speed;
this.gotoAndStop(3);
}

... and see if that fixes anything