position not changing correctly

[josbosmans]

I'm writing a breakout-clone as my first flash-program.
The position of my paddle is updated in _root['palet']._x but I dont see a change on the screen (position changes internally, because I can still deflect the ball, and my debug-output says so).

Some code :

/*new position this.x is calculated before this*/
_root[this.naam]._x = this.x;
message += ' ' + _root[this.naam]._x + ' ' + _root['palet']._x;

The debug output (message) prints the correct value twice.

I'ld really appreciate it if someone could point out what I'm doing wrong.
Thanks

[cobo]

i really think the problem is this part of script:
_root[this.naam]._x = this.x;
message += ' ' + _root[this.naam]._x + ' ' + _root['palet']._x;
the pathing will cause confusion for flash...

what is "naam" ?
is it a movieclip on the root timeline?

if that´s the case you have to write: _root.naam._x = this.x;

what is "palet" ?
is it a movieclip on the root timeline?

if that´s the case you have to write: _root.palet._x;

an other problem could be that you try to mix up strings with numbers...

cobo

[josbosmans]

this.naam is the name of the object, in this case : 'palet'
I tried the naming you suggested (_root.palet._x instead of _root['palet']._x), but nothing changed.
The mixing of strings and numbers only happens in the debug-output, and it doesn't seem to cause any trouble.

I'm not completely familiar with the terminology (movieclip, root timeline), but I think that 'palet' is the name of a movieclip. (it's a red rectangle that I drew previously, that was added to the flash-movie under the name 'palet').

Perhaps some more code would help clarify. This is some code that moves the ball :

this.updatepos = function () {
/*new position this.x and this.y calculated before this*/
_root[this.naam]._x = this.x;
_root[this.naam]._y = this.y;
};

Here, this.naam == 'ball', and this code works correctly (ball moves across the screen).

[cobo]

if you post your zipped fla file i will have a look at it later this day... ;)

cobo

[josbosmans]

I don't really know what fla-files are. I don't use a Macromedia-program, but Ming, an open-source project that allows you to write PHP-code that represents Flash and actionscript-code (the actionscript code is a string), which is directly compiled into a swf-file.
Should I just post all my source code instead?

[cobo]

yip... give it a try mate... :)

now i have a question:

is there a way to create swf files out of .wav (audio file) with ming?

cobo

[cobo]

huh... a warm welcome to the boards at least... :D

[josbosmans]

I've attached the code as a txt-file. I'm afraid that most of the comments are in Dutch (have to leave soon so I don't have time to change them anymore before the evening).
I've only started learning flash saturday, so I don't know much about the capabilities of Ming, but the only sound-related function I've seen thus far is the streammp3 function that allows you to play an external mp3-file.


huh... a warm welcome to the boards at least...

Thanks :)

[cobo]

mate... that´s completly different to everything what i´ve seen by now...
i know php and also actionscript... but i think ming needs also some special knowledge...

try to post your code to the serverside section... http://www.actionscript.org/forums/forumdisplay.php3?f=45

sorry, and good luck... :)

cobo

[josbosmans]

I finally found the problem : the graphic object I was manipulating was called 'palet', but I also had a function called 'Palet', being the constructor for the paddle-object. Apperently actionscript or Ming or Flash isn't case-sensitive, which caused the problem ...
I guess that from now on I'll be using some sort of Hungarian notation (adding the type of the object/variable to its name) to avoid further problems of this kind.

Thanks for your efforts

[cobo]

you´re welcome... :)