Undoubtedly Simple Fix Help Please

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Hey guys

I’m working on a 2D sidescrolling platform game for my programming class and I’ve pretty much just started, I’ve been working on the character movement, right now I’ve got left and right movement to work easy peasy, the problem I’m having right now is that obviously i want it to play a move clip when I move left and right so that it looks like he’s running, but whenever I hold down the left or right arrows it plays the movie clip once and then stops at the end, so essentially he takes two steps and then slides until you let go of the button.

I’ve really been pulling my hair out over this one because I’m sure it’s an easy fix, if you have any ideas I’m willing to try anything, I’ve literally exhausted myself trying to figure this out.

Here’s my code


var moveRight:Boolean = false;
var moveLeft:Boolean = false;
var speed:Number = 10;

frank.scaleX=.2;
frank.scaleY=.2;

stage.addEventListener(KeyboardEvent.KEY_DOWN, moveFunction);
stage.addEventListener(KeyboardEvent.KEY_UP, stopFunction);
stage.addEventListener(Event.ENTER_FRAME, Start);

function moveFunction(evt:KeyboardEvent):void{
    if(evt.keyCode==Keyboard.RIGHT){
        moveRight=true;
        frank.gotoAndStop(2);
    }
    if(evt.keyCode==Keyboard.LEFT){
        moveLeft=true;
        frank.gotoAndStop(2);
    }
}

function stopFunction(evt:KeyboardEvent):void{
    if(evt.keyCode==Keyboard.RIGHT){
        moveRight=false;
        frank.gotoAndStop(1);
    }
    if(evt.keyCode==Keyboard.LEFT){
        moveLeft=false;
        frank.gotoAndStop(1);
    }
}

function Start(evt:Event):void{
    if(moveRight){
        frank.x+=speed;
        frank.scaleX=.2;
    }
    if(moveLeft){
        frank.x+=-speed;
        frank.scaleX=-.2;
    }
}

It’s really basic right now and that’s whats getting under my skin becuase I’m sure it’s just some easy fix I overlooked.

Thanks for reading.

~Cody Sims