Move a movieclip at each click

[Stephdidou]

Hi,

I'd like to create a mini game in my game. The aim of the mini game would be :

To push a cow in a truck by clicking quickly with the mouse. If you're not fast enough, the cow is returning to its original point.

So, I think I must create the cow movieclip and indicate coordinate x something and y something.

Then tell the code that everytime the player click, the movieclip goes y +1.

BUT, every 0.5 seconds the movielcip goes  y-2 (unless it's at his original coordinates).

And tells the code that, when the cow movieclip is at x.somethingelse and y.somethingelse, the puzzle is complete.

Now..last but not least... How I can I do that ?

Would it be something like this ? :

cow = new cowMovieclip;
addchild(cow);
cow.x = 0;
cow.y = 0;
cow.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, push, false, 0, true);
public function push(e:MouseEvent):void{
// I don't think it's like that
cow.x = +1;
cow.y = +1;
}
if (cow.y = 30){
allPuzzles.room.cowPushed = true;
}

And there's the code that tells the cow to goes -1 if the player don't click, but I don't know at all how to put this...

So, nothing is working with this code, so I assume I've done lot of mistakes.

Can you help me ?

Thank you very much for your help,

[funkysoul]

something like this?:

cow = new cowMovieclip;
addchild(cow);
cow.x = 0;
cow.y = 0;
 
 
cow.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, push, false, 0, true);

setTimeOut(pushCowBack, 500);

public function pushCowBack():void{
     if ( cow.x != 0 )     
          cow.x = cow.x - 2;
}

public function push(e:MouseEvent):void{

cow.x = +1;
cow.y = +1;
}
 
 
if (cow.y = 30){
allPuzzles.room.cowPushed = true;
}

[Stephdidou]

Thank you !!

But error 1180 with the SetTimeOut...

I've put import flash.utils.*; but it doesn't change a thing...

[Stephdidou]

My bad, the error is no longer here.

[Stephdidou]

Hmm The game's launch.

The cow is at x=0 and y=0.

But, an error 1 second after I enter in the scene :

Error #1010: A term is undefined and has no properties.

          at com.laserdragonuniversity.alpaca::Puzzle/pushCowBack()

at Function/http://adobe.com/AS3/2006/builtin::apply()

          at SetIntervalTimer/onTimer()

          at flash.utils::Timer/_timerDispatch()

          at flash.utils::Timer/tick()

In my puzzles, the line 2283 is  "if ( cow.x != 0 )"      in the pushCowBack function...

Any idea ? 

[moccamaximum · Accepted solution]

There is another error in the code

if (cow.y = 30)

should be

if (cow.y ==30);

maybe you have another one those in your code that causes the disturbance.

BTW: setTimeOut is considered even less trustworthy then Timers when it comes to actually measuring sth.

The code you provided rewriteen with a timer:

import flash.utils.Timer;

import flash.events.TimerEvent;

import flash.events.MouseEvent;

var clickTimer:Timer = new Timer(500);

var cowClicked:Boolean = false;

clickTimer.addEventListener(TimerEvent.TIMER,clickTimeHandler);

clickTimer.start();

cow.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, clickHandler)

function clickTimeHandler(e:TimerEvent):void{

    if(!cowClicked && cow.x>0){

        cow.x -=5;

    }

    cowClicked = false;

}

function clickHandler(e:MouseEvent):void{

    cowClicked = true;

    cow.x += 5;

}

[Stephdidou]

Thank you !