Question

Could you please take a look to my code below, I need to increase the var misses by 1 every time the ball does not hit the goal area (it’s a penalty shootout game) but the matter is that it increases many times, this is the output message after making a trace for the variable value so you can have an idea:

It’s a fail 1
1
It’s a fail 2
2
It’s a fail 3
3
It’s a fail 4
4
It’s a fail 5
5
It’s a fail 6
6
It’s a fail 7
7
It’s a fail 8
8
It’s a fail 9
9
It’s a fail 10
10
And so on, my code is this and I’m pretty sure that the line affecting the result needed is the line stage.addEventListener(Event.ENTER_FRAME, onEnter); could you please give me some advice on how to work around this? Probably trying an alternative way to move the ball when is is moved in moveBall function? I have received a lot of help from you guys and I’m sorry for being so annoying, simply I’m still a newbie and get stuck at some points between my code and the ideas I have gathered so far. Here is my code

import flash.events.Event;
import flash.ui.Mouse;
import flash.geom.Point;
import flash.events.MouseEvent;

 var misses:int= 0;//Here the var used trying to put the game over when player misses 3 shoots
var cursor:MovieClip; // mouse will be converted to a cursor (aim) which is the spot ball must follow
var nowX:Number; ;// will be used to move the ball
var nowY:Number;// will be used to move the ball
var isUpdating:Boolean = false; // will be used to control mouse events and other later on
var isClipSync:Boolean = false; // will be used to control mouse events and other later on
const START_BALL_POINT:Point = new Point(296,353); // returning the ball to original positions
function initializeGame():void
 {   
cursor = new Cursor();
addChild(cursor);
cursor.enabled = false;
//Mouse.hide(); 
stage.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, dragCursor);
stage.addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_MOVE, onCursorMove);
  }

  function onCursorMove(e:MouseEvent):void
  {
cursor.x = mouseX;
cursor.y = mouseY;
 }

function onEnter(e:Event):void
{
 isUpdating= true;

 if(pateador_mc.currentFrame == 19) 
 {
     pateador_mc.gotoAndStop(1);
 }
 //trace(pateador_mc.currentFrame);
 //

if(pateador_mc.currentFrame > 11)
    isClipSync = true;

 moveBall();
  }


  function dragCursor(event:MouseEvent):void
 {
if(isUpdating) return;

trace(isUpdating);
nowX = mouseX;
nowY = mouseY;

pateador_mc.play();
stage.addEventListener(Event.ENTER_FRAME, onEnter);// probably this is causing        multiple count of trace events when I try to gather the failed shoots
}

initializeGame();
var mouse=this.Mouse;

var speed:int = 800;
var ease:int = 4;
 var gravity:Number = 0.5;
function moveBall()
  {
if(!isClipSync) return;

bola.x += 0.2 * (nowX - bola.x);
bola.y += 0.2 * (nowY - bola.y);

if(Math.abs(nowX-bola.x)<1 && Math.abs(nowY-bola.y)<1) 
{
    stage.removeEventListener(Event.ENTER_FRAME, onEnter);
    isUpdating = false;
    isClipSync = false;
    var timer3:Timer = new Timer(3000,1);
    timer3.addEventListener(TimerEvent.TIMER, accionRepetida3);
    timer3.start();
    function accionRepetida3(e:TimerEvent)
    {
    bola.x = START_BALL_POINT.x;
    bola.y = START_BALL_POINT.y;}
}
if (bola.hitTestObject(goalie))
{

    gol_mc.play();  /// All good at this point
    red_mc.play();

}
//
  else
{

    misses++;
    trace("It's a fail", misses);


}

 }

I will really appreciate if some good pal takes the time to check on this, I promise when I get a better programmer I will help all those who need it.

Thanks again!

Answer 1

can you modify your code and give the output again?

trace("It's a fail for barrier3", misses)
trace("It's a fail for barrier2", misses) and so on.