Help with character movement

[XenElement]

Some of you may have seen my previous post, but basically I have an arcade machine skin that looks like a ghost is moving it as you play. One button, and one joystick.

Here's my problem:





var _left:Boolean;
var _right:Boolean;
var _up:Boolean;
var _down:Boolean;
var _fire:Boolean;
var shipspeed:Number = 5

function stagecontrol() {

stage.addEventListener(KeyboardEvent.KEY_DOWN, KeyDownList);
stage.addEventListener(KeyboardEvent.KEY_UP, KeyUpList);

}

function KeyDownList(joyEventGo:KeyboardEvent):void {
if (joyEventGo.keyCode==Keyboard.LEFT) {
joystick.gotoAndStop("left");
_left = true;
}
if (joyEventGo.keyCode==Keyboard.RIGHT) {
joystick.gotoAndStop("right");
_right = true;
}
if (joyEventGo.keyCode==Keyboard.UP) {
joystick.gotoAndStop("up");
_up = true;
}
if (joyEventGo.keyCode==Keyboard.DOWN) {
joystick.gotoAndStop("down");
_down = true;
}
if (joyEventGo.keyCode==Keyboard.SPACE) {
fire_button.gotoAndStop("down");
_fire = true;
}
}

function KeyUpList(joyEventStop:KeyboardEvent):void {
if (joyEventStop.keyCode==Keyboard.LEFT) {
joystick.gotoAndStop("middle");
_left = false;
}
if (joyEventStop.keyCode==Keyboard.RIGHT) {
joystick.gotoAndStop("middle");
_right = false;
}
if (joyEventStop.keyCode==Keyboard.UP) {
joystick.gotoAndStop("middle");
_up = false;
}
if (joyEventStop.keyCode==Keyboard.DOWN) {
joystick.gotoAndStop("middle");
_down = false;
}
if (joyEventStop.keyCode==Keyboard.SPACE) {
fire_button.gotoAndStop("up");
_fire = false;
}
}

function moveLeft() {
if (_left = true) {
spaceship.x -= shipspeed
trace("Moving Left.");
}
}
function moveRight() {
}
function moveUp() {
}
function moveDown() {
}

stagecontrol()




see the part in red txt? It somehow starts as true automatically, and even when I do

var _left:Boolean = false

it still comes out with "Moving Left." in the output window. Event if I havent pushed left! Any help is appreciated, thank you.

[neznein9]

you're using the assignment ( = ) instead of the comparison ( == ) operator. Try:

if(_left == true) 

or better yet

if(_left) 

[XenElement]

Hmmm. It stopped spamming the "Moving Left." thing in the output window, but now it is doing nothing.

as you can see I didnt do an add child or anything, the ship just started on the stage. Could that cause some sort of problem?

[XenElement]

AHA! I figured it out! It turns out that you were correct, I needed if (_left). but also, I wasn't calling the function anywhere. so there you have it. Pure stupidity.

[redjag]

We're all human :P Sometimes the code you wrote in your head isn't the same as the code your fingers wrote and its hard to see your own mistakes

[XenElement]

We're all human :P Sometimes the code you wrote in your head isn't the same as the code your fingers wrote and its hard to see your own mistakes

Oh, it's so true!