Programming error

I’m trying to start a simple flash game, and I have two movie clips; a movable character and an obstacle. When the character hits the obstacle, the game’s supposed to go to frame 2 and stop (the game over screen). Instead, the game freezes up and flashes rapidly between the two frames. Anything else that I put in instead of the gotoandstop works, so I don’t think it’s how I’m doing the if statement. Anyone know how to fix this?

Can you post your game code in here? Use the (pre) (/pre) HTML tags.

Here’s the code for the obstacle:

onClipEvent (enterFrame) {

	if(root.wall.hitTest(root.red)){

		gotoAndStop(2);

	}

}

Well, I don’t know. There’s not enough here for me to tell what’s going on. Try putting a stop(); command on frame two.

Other than that, you should try not to use onClipEvents because they are depreciated. Instead, write your main game code inside the onEnterFrame like this, so you can scope your code effectively:

this.onEnterFrame = function() {

}

Put a stop(); command on frame 1 also!

Ok, I put a stop(); command on frames 1 and 2, and to get rid of the onClipEvent statement I changed the code to this:

this.onEnterFrame = function(){

	if(root.wall.hitTest(root.red)){

		gotoAndStop(2);

		}

}

Error Scene=Scene 1, layer=Layer 1, frame=1:Line 1: Statement must appear within on/onClipEvent handler

     this.onEnterFrame = function() {

Total ActionScript Errors: 1 Reported Errors: 1

And when I move the character into the wall nothing happens. Do you know what I’m doing wrong?

you need that on the main timeline and not on the movieclip.

Yes, what Woad said ^.

You also should put delete onEnterFrame inside the if statement as well (above gotoAndStop(2) ) because the EnterFrame event will persist until you remove it or the timeline it was created on.

This may seem boring or mean, but I suggest reading up on Actionscript and Object Oriented Programming. You’re obviously struggling with the concepts of how to organize your code blocks, and even where to put your code in the first place for a Flash game.