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Hey all, I am somewhat new to programming and I have basic start of a video game. I have been working on Adobe Flash Professional CS6 using AS3 and I am still trying to figure some things out here. My main problem is at the moment is getting my animations to work with my button presses and I notice sometimes when I press those buttons they do not work at the moment they're pressed and I know it has something to do with the timers but if I remove the timers the animations over lap each other when buttons are pressed. Here is what I got so far with my code: By the way Jump, Run, & Slide have the exact same code expect for class and function name.

package Action {

import flash.display.MovieClip;
import flash.display.Stage;
import flash.events.Event;

public class Jump extends MovieClip {

private var stageRef:Stage;

public function Jump(stageRef:Stage, x:Number, y:Number) {
this.stageRef = stageRef;
this.x = 200;
this.y = 600;

addEventListener(Event.ENTER_FRAME, loop, false, 0, true);
}

private function loop(e:Event) {
if (currentFrame == totalFrames)
removeSelf();
}

private function removeSelf() : void {
removeEventListener(Event.ENTER_FRAME, loop);

if (stageRef.contains(this))
stageRef.removeChild(this);
}

}

}

package Action {

import flash.display.MovieClip;
import flash.display.Stage;
import flash.events.Event;

public class Runner extends MovieClip {

private var ourChar:Start;

public function Runner() {
//create an object of our character from the Run class
ourChar = new Start(stage);

//add it to the display list
stage.addChild(ourChar);

//starting location of character
ourChar.x = stage.stageWidth / 8;
ourChar.y = stage.stageHeight / 1.15;
}
}

}

package Action {

import flash.display.MovieClip;
import flash.display.Stage;
import Input.KeyObject;
import flash.ui.Keyboard;
import flash.events.Event;
import flash.utils.Timer;
import flash.events.TimerEvent;

public class Start extends MovieClip {

private var stageRef:Stage;
private var key:KeyObject;
private var JumpTimer:Timer;
private var canJump:Boolean = false;
private var SlideTimer:Timer;
private var canSlide:Boolean = false;
private var RunTimer:Timer;
private var canRun:Boolean = false;
private var jump:Boolean = false;
private var gravity:Number = 10;
private var jumpPower:Number = 0;
private var isJumping:Boolean = false;
private var ground:Number = 600;

public function Start(stageRef:Stage) {
this.stageRef = stageRef;
key = new KeyObject(stageRef);

JumpTimer = new Timer(1000, 1);
JumpTimer.addEventListener(TimerEvent.TIMER, jumpTimerHandler, false, 0, true);

SlideTimer = new Timer(1000, 1);
SlideTimer.addEventListener(TimerEvent.TIMER, slideTimerHandler, false, 0, true);

RunTimer = new Timer(1000, 1);
RunTimer.addEventListener(TimerEvent.TIMER, runTimerHandler, false, 0, true);

addEventListener(Event.ENTER_FRAME, loop, false, 0, true);
}

public function loop(e:Event) : void {
//key presses
if (key.isDown(Keyboard.UP) && !canJump && !canRun) {
if(!isJumping) {
Jumper();
}
} else if (key.isDown(Keyboard.DOWN) && !canSlide && !canRun) {
Slider();
} else {
Runnerz();
}
if(isJumping) {
this.y -= jumpPower;
jumpPower -= 2;
}

if(this.y + gravity < ground) {
this.y += gravity;
} else {
this.y = ground;
isJumping = false;
}
}

private function Jumper() : void {
if (!canJump) {
stageRef.addChild(new Jump(stageRef, x, y));
canRun = true;
canJump = true;
canSlide = true;
this.jumpPower = 30;
isJumping = true;
}
}

private function Slider() : void {
if (!canSlide) {
stageRef.addChild(new Slide(stageRef, x, y));
canSlide = true;
canRun = true;
canJump = true;
}
}

private function Runnerz() : void {
if (!canRun) {
stageRef.addChild(new Run(stageRef, x, y));
canRun = true;
}
RunTimer.start();
}

private function jumpTimerHandler(e:TimerEvent) : void {
canJump = false;
}

private function slideTimerHandler(e:TimerEvent) : void {
canSlide = false;
}

private function runTimerHandler(e:TimerEvent) : void {
canRun = false;
canSlide = false;
canJump = false;
}

}

}

I would gladly accept your help and thank you for looking over the code.