Hit test help AS2

programming flash
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If someone could help me out with this I would be very grateful.

Basically I can’t figure out what’s going on with this hit test. It’s a pac man game (in the VERY early stages). I’ve drawn lines where pacman should be allowed to be (probably not the best way of doing it). And for some reason the the hit test wont doesn’t register as true even when I place pacman directly over the movieclip I’m hit testing for.

I’ve attached a file but here’s the code so far just in case you can see what I’m doing wrong without actually downloading the attachment.

pmSpeed = 1;

pm.onEnterFrame = function() {
	
	if(Key.isDown(Key.LEFT)){
		pmDirection = "left";
		this.gotoAndStop(1);
	}else if(Key.isDown(Key.RIGHT)){
		pmDirection = "right";
		this.gotoAndStop(2);
	}else if(Key.isDown(Key.UP)){
		pmDirection = "up";
		this.gotoAndStop(3);
	}else if(Key.isDown(Key.DOWN)){
		pmDirection = "down";
		this.gotoAndStop(4);
	}
	
	
	if(pmDirection == "left"){
		this._x -= pmSpeed;
	}
	if(pmDirection == "right"){
		this._x += pmSpeed;
	}
	if(pmDirection == "up"){
		this._y -= pmSpeed;
	}
	if(pmDirection == "down"){
		this._y += pmSpeed;
	}
	
	// I think there is something wrong with this
	if(pmPath.hitTest(this._y,this._x,true)) {
		trace("hit!");
	}
}

Like I said it’s in the very early stages. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

TIA
Cian McCoy