On click do this

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i’m making a simple game in which you shoot a target by clicking on it with the mouse, but i want there to be a limited number of shots,

so i have a dynamic text box with a var of bullets, i’m trying to write some AS so that when ever the user clicks anywhere inside of the movie, it subtracts one from the number of bullets left.

2

Never mind… silly me
I understand what you mean now

3

you’re gonna adjust the code above to use onMousedown
sorry for the mixup

someListener = new Object();
someListener.onMouseDown = function () { … };
Mouse.addListener(someListener);

4

okay, this is a basic example of what i’m trying to accomplish, i think this how to go about what i want.

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this.onMouseDown = function() {
	--bullets;
};
6

yeah… and you will want to stop when it reaches zero, otherwise you’ll get into neg numbers

7

i was wondering one other thing, would something like this work,
if i had a mc target, instead of a button…

onClipEvent(enterFrame) {
if(this.hitTest(_root._xmouse,_root._ymouse))
function(){
bullets-=1;
}
}

or, a hitTest on mouse down ? bah, i’m confusing my self

8

What, you want the bullets value to be subtracted only when the mouse is over the target?

9

only when the mouse is pressed on the target, like if you click on the target mc, it would subtract a bullet, and play frame 2, where it has an x on it, then dissapear…

10

okay, i think i almost understand
i posted a revised fla, when you click the target you lose a bullet, and gain a point, but even if you click something out side of the target, you still gain a point

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target.onPress = function() {
	if (bullets != 0) --bullets
};
12

Ah i see what you trying to do… erase the code on your ctarget mc. Place this code on the timeline:

var bullets = 10;
var score = 0;
this.onMouseDown = function() {
	if (bullets != 0) {
		if (ctarget.hitTest(_xmouse, _ymouse, false)) {
			--bullets;
			++score;
			ctarget.gotoAndPlay(2);
		} else {
			--bullets;
		}
	}
};
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var bullets = 10;
var score = 0;
this.onMouseDown = function() {
if (bullets != 0) {
if ([“ctarget”+i].hitTest(_xmouse, _ymouse, false)) {
–bullets;
++score;
[“ctarget”+i].gotoAndPlay(2);
} else {
–bullets;
}
}
};

numctarget = 4;
for (i=2; i<=numctarget; i++) {
ctarget.duplicateMovieClip(“ctarget”+i, i+100);
}

that is the AS i tried to use to duplicate the target, so there is more than one on the screen, how ever it no longer works :frowning:

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