Why wont my ship move right?

[Guest]

I am following this tutorial and i have got to step 9.

http://www.kongregate.com/games/Kongregate/shootorial-1

I have made a file called Ship.as with this code in.

class Ship extends MovieClip
{
    var speed;
   
    function onLoad()
    {
    speed = 10;
    }
   
    function onEnterFrame()
    {
    if (Key.isDown(Key.RIGHT))
    {
        _x = _x + speed;
    }
   
    }
}

When i test the SWF nothing happens. The ship just sits in the top left corner doing nothing. I am getting no errors so can anyone help me fix this?

Thanks.

[Ned Murphy]

Have you read thru the comments on the page you linked?

[jjk_aaa]

if you can not find what is wrong in that code you could use this instead

put this inside the movie clip

speed= 5;

onEnterFrame= function(){

if(Key.isDown(Key.RIGHT)) {
    this._x+=speed;
        }

}

or if you want the code on the frame then

speed= 5;

onEnterFrame= function(){

if(Key.isDown(Key.RIGHT)) {
     instancename._x+=speed;
         }

}

change the bit in red to your instance name of the movie clip you are trying to move

hope this helps

[aneelbakshi]

May b it sounds stupid

just check that you attached the class to movieClip in library