# Tricky code, won't work!
**URL:** https://forum.kirupa.com/t/tricky-code-wont-work/5926
**Category:** Uncategorized
**Created:** [September 26, 2002, 1:31am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/tricky-code-wont-work/5926 "2002-09-26T01:31:38Z")
**Posts on this page:** 17
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### Author:  [@eilsoe](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/eilsoe)
#### Post date: [September 26, 2002, 1:31am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/tricky-code-wont-work/5926/1 "2002-09-26T01:31:38Z")
I use this code on a ball:\*\*
on(press){
startdrag(this);
drag=true;
}
on(release){
stopdrag();
drag=false;
}
onClipEvent(enterFrame){
if(!drag){
newx=\_root.leader.\_x;
newy=\_root.leader.\_y-\_root.dist;
\_x+=(newx-\_x)/10;
\_y+=(newy-\_y)/10;
}
}\*\*
And this works fine, but see here:\*\*
onClipEvent(enterFrame){
if(!drag){
if(!\_root.ease){
newx=\_root.leader.\_x;
newy=\_root.leader.\_y-\_root.dist;
\_x+=(newx-\_x)/10;
\_y+=(newy-\_y)/10;
}else if(\_root.ease){
newx=\_root.leader.\_x;
newy=\_root.leader.\_y-\_root.dist;
\_x+=(newx-\_x)/10;
\_y+=(newy-\_y)/10;
}
}
}\*\*
When i add this in the enterframe, nothing happens… the ball is frozen solid! It doesn’t react to the code!!
Why???
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [September 26, 2002, 1:33am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/tricky-code-wont-work/5926/2 "2002-09-26T01:33:09Z")
And i DO set the “ease” to true or false before this code is compiled…!
And i know my code for [!ease] and [ease] are the same, I’m altering it when i get this ball to behave properly!!
I mean, it’s simple code! It should work!
:-\
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [September 26, 2002, 8:01am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/tricky-code-wont-work/5926/3 "2002-09-26T08:01:19Z")
Can you use the code tag, Eilsoe? It’s much more readable that way. And I might be wrong, but I’m under the impression that your code does the same thing whatever the value of ease, no?
pom :asian:
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [September 26, 2002, 8:04am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/tricky-code-wont-work/5926/4 "2002-09-26T08:04:54Z")
It works perfectly fine for me.
Try it. Create a new movie clip. And apply these actions…
```auto
on (press) {
startDrag(this);
drag = true;
}
on (release, releaseOutside) {
stopDrag();
drag = false;
}
onClipEvent (enterFrame) {
if (!drag) {
if (!_root.ease) {
newx = _root.leader._x;
newy = _root.leader._y-_root.dist;
_x += (newx-_x)/10;
_y += (newy-_y)/10;
} else if (_root.ease) {
newx = _root.leader._x;
newy = _root.leader._y-_root.dist;
_x += (newx-_x)/10;
_y += (newy-_y)/10;
}
}
}
```
It works great for me
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [September 26, 2002, 11:04am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/tricky-code-wont-work/5926/5 "2002-09-26T11:04:00Z")
well heres the funny part, actually before the code, i assign the object to have a random xy location on load right?
And regarding the enterframe thing, if i go back to just having if(!drag){ , and throw away the ease part, “like in the first code i showed u”, it works again. BUT, even if i then try and use a swapdepths, it does the same thing again!!
It keeps loading itself!! Since i have random xy on LOAD only, i find it weird it disregards the (enterframe) and keeps loading itself…!!
Why aren’t i allowed to do this??
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [September 26, 2002, 11:05am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/tricky-code-wont-work/5926/6 "2002-09-26T11:05:32Z")
tried to copy/paste your code lost, still doesn’t work for me…
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [September 26, 2002, 12:00pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/tricky-code-wont-work/5926/7 "2002-09-26T12:00:26Z")
That piece of code still doesn’t make sense to me, guys…
```auto
if (!_root.ease) {
newx = _root.leader._x;
newy = _root.leader._y-_root.dist;
_x += (newx-_x)/10;
_y += (newy-_y)/10;
} else if (_root.ease) {
newx = _root.leader._x;
newy = _root.leader._y-_root.dist;
_x += (newx-_x)/10;
_y += (newy-_y)/10;
}
```
What’s the difference between the 2? And also what is leader??
pom
:asian:
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [September 26, 2002, 12:20pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/tricky-code-wont-work/5926/8 "2002-09-26T12:20:51Z")
As stated ABOVE… the 2 are still identical… i will change one when this works… right now, i have to make it move first…
leader is an object in the main timeline…
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [September 26, 2002, 12:21pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/tricky-code-wont-work/5926/9 "2002-09-26T12:21:38Z")
I gave u the fla in a PM ilyas… check it there…
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [September 26, 2002, 2:37pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/tricky-code-wont-work/5926/10 "2002-09-26T14:37:40Z")
Nice effect! You should really work with functions though…
pom :asian:
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [September 26, 2002, 3:07pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/tricky-code-wont-work/5926/11 "2002-09-26T15:07:57Z")
I thought so… but i figured out what went wrong in my movie…
Is there a descent, ease to understand tut on what functions are and how they work, somewhere?
I’ve seen functions a thousand places, I just dunno exactly how to “structure” them…
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [September 26, 2002, 3:40pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/tricky-code-wont-work/5926/12 "2002-09-26T15:40:28Z")
Take for instance Lost’s easing code:
```auto
onClipEvent (load) {
_x = 0;
_y = 0;
speed = 5;
}
onClipEvent (enterFrame) {
endX = _root._xmouse;
endY = _root._ymouse;
_x += (endX-_x)/speed;
_y += (endY-_y)/speed;
}
```
Instead of doing that for all the time, you could define in the \_root:
```auto
function easeTo() {
this.endX = _root._xmouse;
this.endY = _root._ymouse;
this._x += (this.endX-this._x)/speed;
this._y += (this.endY-this._y)/speed;
}
```
I added this in front of variables and properties for scope issues (see the AS tricks). Then in your clip:
```auto
onClipEvent (load) {
_x = 0;
_y = 0;
speed = 5;
}
onClipEvent (enterFrame) {
easeTo();
}
```
It’s actutally even easier with MX… But you see, there’s nothing special, you just rewrite the code inside the body of the function, basically.
pom :asian:
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [September 26, 2002, 3:47pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/tricky-code-wont-work/5926/13 "2002-09-26T15:47:19Z")
Hum, you can improve the function a bit:
```auto
function easeTo() {
this._x += (_root._xmouse-this._x)/speed;
this._y += (_root._ymouse-this._y)/speed;
}
```
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [September 26, 2002, 3:49pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/tricky-code-wont-work/5926/14 "2002-09-26T15:49:26Z")
okeey, that doesn’t look too hard…
Whaddya mean “define it in the \_root” ?
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [September 26, 2002, 3:54pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/tricky-code-wont-work/5926/15 "2002-09-26T15:54:33Z")
oh and btw, have u seen my “Drawing machine v.2” in the random threads? 😛
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [September 26, 2002, 4:14pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/tricky-code-wont-work/5926/16 "2002-09-26T16:14:05Z")
Define in the \_root=put the code in a frame of the main timeline. And I’ll check that 🙂
pom :asian:
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [September 26, 2002, 4:26pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/tricky-code-wont-work/5926/17 "2002-09-26T16:26:00Z")
ah, of course… 🙂