Breakout - A little starting trouble

[Osteel]

Hey everyone

Im in the game making part of Flash as it is a great way to learn alot of different methods of doing things as well as learning new Actionscript , and also because you have something impressive to show once your done


Well a little while ago I came across a tutorial here on Flashkit that showed me how to make the basic engine for the Classic Breakout game, though the author of the tutorial's english wasnt all that great, I was still able to piece it together


Now Im running into a problem (I have attached the .fla)


1) I have three walls which are each a seperate movieclip (left, top, right) and each has the code in it that checks for a hittest with the ball

2) I have a unseen Movieclip (the black ball on the outside left of the stage) that controls the direction of the ball
Basically in this movieclip 'moving', there are four different frames each with its own movieclip

3) Each of these 4 seperate movieclips contains the code
tellTarget (_root._root.ball) {
_x -= 10;
_y -= 10;
}
Except the + and - are arranged differently depending on which direction the ball will be moving


To help you I will tell you which frame inside the movieclip 'moving' moves the ball in which direction

Frame 1 = Up-Left
Frame 2 = Down-Left
Frame 3 = Up-Right
Frame 4 = Down-Right



Now I tried going about this by having a variable 'direction' inside the 'moving' movieclip that begins at one since the ball starts in the Up-Left moving direction

Everytime it hits the wall or the paddle, it checks to see what value this direction variable can be (1,2,3 or 4). Depending on which it is, it'll go to the different frames in the moving movieclip


When I run the program it works (try) except for when it goes Down-Right and hits the right wall, for some reason it will just go right through it


Anyways, sorry for the length thread and hopefully it will make sense. If not, perhaps you can make sense of my .fla

Thanks everyone, hopefully you can help