Controlling movie with up and down keys

[silverdemon]

Hi,

Fairly new to Flash and am trying to get a movie to play forward using the 'up' key and play backwards using the 'down' key.

I have sorted the code so that it works with clicking buttons, but am having problems getting the code right so that it works the same but using keys instead.

Any suggestions?

Cheers

[The_A]

Hey,

please post your code, that will be a lot easier for us to give you hints and find errors

Regards,
A.

[silverdemon]

Hi,

This is the code that's on my back button

on (press) {
_root.control.gotoAndPlay(2);
}
on (release) {
_root.control.gotoAndPlay(1);
}

This goes to a movie clip to control the looping backwards.

On the forwards button, simply:

on (press) {
play();
}
on (release) {
stop();
}

I had hoped that it would be simple to replace button commands with keyboard commands, but having researched it, I'm struggling making sense of the variety of keyboard input options and which are appropriate.

I gather that having a bunch of code together that involves key listeners and 'if' and 'else' code may be the way, but am not sure if this code needs to be attached to anything (movie or button off screen).

I appreciate the help.

Cheers

[NTD]

Hi,

Key motion function...

/*
Key Motion Function
T. Norman
http://ntdesigns.net
*/
function keyMoveTarget(targetName, speed) {
	speed = speed;
	this.onEnterFrame = function() {
		//Motion
		/*
		code for other than standard keys...
		if (Key.getCode() == 87) {
		targetName._y -= speed;
		trace("you typed the key");
		} else if (Key.getCode() == 83) {
		targetName._y += speed;
		} else if (Key.getCode() == 65) {
		targetName._x -= speed;
		} else if (Key.getCode() == 68) {
		targetName._x += speed;
		}
		*/
		if (Key.isDown(Key.UP)) {
			targetName._y -= speed;
		} else if (Key.isDown(Key.DOWN)) {
			targetName._y += speed;
		} else if (Key.isDown(Key.LEFT)) {
			targetName._x -= speed;
		} else if (Key.isDown(Key.RIGHT)) {
			targetName._x += speed;
		}
		//Boundary    
		if (targetName._x>Stage.width) {
			targetName._x = Stage.width;
		} else if (targetName._x<0) {
			targetName._x = 0;
		} else if (targetName._y>Stage.height) {
			targetName._y = Stage.height;
		} else if (targetName._y<0) {
			targetName._y = 0;
		}
	};
}
keyMoveTarget(ball, 10);

hope it helps
NTD