Having a hard time with "play again" function

Hi, everyone. I’m relatively new to programming with AS3 (as you’ll be able to tell from my code), but I was looking for some advice in a project that I was working on.

I have no intent of distributing the game since some of it is someone else’s code that I was working with just for educational purposes. I’ve tried to add several functions on my own, but for some reason, “Play Again” is really giving me a hard time. Let me know what you guys think:

LeftPaddle.x = (20);
LeftPaddle.y = (200);
RightPaddle.x = (530);
RightPaddle.y = (200);
Ball.x = (518);
Ball.y = (200);
winnerText.x = (2000);
winnerText.y = (2000);
loserText.x = (2000);
loserText.y = (2000);
instruction1.x = (275);
instruction1.y = (100);
instruction2.x = (275);
instruction2.y = (166);
startButton.x = (275);
startButton.y = (367);
replayButton.x = (2000);
replayButton.y = (2000);

var ballSpeedX:int = -3;
var ballSpeedY:int = -2;

var playerScore:int = 0;
var cpuScore:int = 0;

var rightPaddleSpeed:int = 3;

startButton.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, gameStart);
replayButton.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, replayGame);

function replayGame(e:MouseEvent):void
{
	trace("1")
}

function winner():void
{
	winnerText.x = (275);
	winnerText.y = (125);
	ballSpeedX = 0;
	Ball.x = (518);
	Ball.y = (200);
	RightPaddle.y = (200);
	LeftPaddle.y = (200);
	replayButton.x = (275);
	replayButton.y = (367);
	replayGame(e:MouseEvent);
}

function loser():void
{
	loserText.x = (275);
	loserText.y = (125);
	ballSpeedX = 0;
	Ball.x = (518);
	Ball.y = (200);
	RightPaddle.y = (200);
	LeftPaddle.y = (200);
	replayButton.x = (275);
	replayButton.y = (367);
	replayGame(e:MouseEvent)
}

function gameStart(e:MouseEvent):void
{
	instruction1.x = (2000);
	instruction1.y = (2000);
	instruction2.x = (2000);
	instruction2.y = (2000);
	startButton.x = (2000);
	startButton.y = (2000);
	init();
}

function updateTextFields():void
{
	playerScoreText.text = ("Player Score: " + playerScore);
	cpuScoreText.text = ("CPU Score: " + cpuScore);
}

function init():void
{
	stage.addEventListener(Event.ENTER_FRAME, loop);
}

function calculateBallAngle(PaddleY:Number, BallY:Number):Number
{
	var ySpeed:Number = 5 * ( (BallY - PaddleY) / 25);
	return ySpeed;
}


function loop(e:Event):void
{
	Ball.x = Ball.x + ballSpeedX
	Ball.y = Ball.y + ballSpeedY
	
	if (LeftPaddle.hitTestObject(Ball) == true)
	{
		if (ballSpeedX < 0)
		{
			ballSpeedX = ballSpeedX * -1;
			ballSpeedY = calculateBallAngle(LeftPaddle.y, Ball.y);
		}	
	}
	
	else if (RightPaddle.hitTestObject(Ball) == true)
	{
		if (ballSpeedX > 0)
		{
			ballSpeedX = ballSpeedX * -1
			ballSpeedY = calculateBallAngle(RightPaddle.y, Ball.y);
		}
	}
	
	LeftPaddle.y = mouseY;
	
	if (Ball.y - RightPaddle.y > 10)
	{
		RightPaddle.y = RightPaddle.y + rightPaddleSpeed
	}
	
	else if (RightPaddle.y - Ball.y > 10)
	{
		RightPaddle.y = RightPaddle.y - rightPaddleSpeed
	}
	
	if (LeftPaddle.y - LeftPaddle.height / 2 < 0)
	{
		LeftPaddle.y = LeftPaddle.height / 2;
	}
	
	else if (LeftPaddle.y + LeftPaddle.height / 2 > stage.stageHeight)
	{
		LeftPaddle.y = stage.stageHeight - LeftPaddle.height / 2;
	}
	
	if (Ball.x <= Ball.width / 2)
	{
		Ball.x = Ball.width / 2;
		ballSpeedX = ballSpeedX * -1;
		cpuScore = cpuScore + 1;
		updateTextFields();
	}
	else if (Ball.x >= stage.stageWidth - Ball.width / 2)
	{
		Ball.x = stage.stageWidth - Ball.width / 2;
		ballSpeedX = ballSpeedX * -1;
		playerScore = playerScore + 1;
		updateTextFields();
	}
	
	if (Ball.y <= Ball.height / 2)
	{
		Ball.y = Ball.height / 2
		ballSpeedY = ballSpeedY * - 1
	}
	else if (Ball.y >= stage.stageHeight - Ball.height / 2)
	{
		Ball.y = stage.stageHeight - Ball.height / 2
		ballSpeedY = ballSpeedY * -1
	}
	
	if (playerScore == 5)
	{
		winner();
	}
	else if (cpuScore == 5)
	{
		loser();
	}
}

I believe the best way to go about this given my minimal programming knowledge is to call the “replayGame” function every time you win or lose, giving the player a choice to click a button to play again.

At runtime, I’m getting an error saying:

Scene 1, Layer 'Layer 1', Frame 1, Line 47	1084: Syntax error: expecting rightparen before colon.

AND

Scene 1, Layer 'Layer 1', Frame 1, Line 61	1084: Syntax error: expecting rightparen before colon.

Thanks in advance for your help, everyone!

“Syntax error” means you typed it wrong.

“Expecting rightparen before colon” either means that a right parenthesis is missing, or that you added a colon in the wrong place.

Look at the lines 47 and 61 to to see which it is.

Check out this thread – it will stop the forum from mangling your code and make it much easier for everyone to help you.
http://www.kongregate.com/forums/4-game-programming/topics/39889-proper-forum-code-formatting-guide

I believe your problem is on this line

replayGame(e:MouseEvent);

Your replayGame function expects a mouse event. If you want to call that function without an event, there are a few different ways of doing that. I would suggest providing a default value in the function, like so:

function replayGame(e:MouseEvent = null):void

Then you can call that function with a mouseEvent, or without one by using the code

replayGame();

Put all the initialisation scripting into a function (actually it’s a procedure but AS uses the word ‘function’ for both), then you can call that from replayGame to get things back to the initial state.

Why the parantheses around all of the numbers???