Forums → Programming Forum → [Need help] hittest only works once?

"when i make thise script" haha i said thise, i ment "this" lol

You are telling ss to go to a certain position, not to change positions, so unless ss is moving on its own, it will perform the hittest more than once, but it won't look any different.

If you are telling it to move on its own, unless "ss" is a variable for an object, you need to use _root.ss or something like that when referring to it in the if statement. And if you are using ss as a variable for an object, you shouldn't have "_root.ss" inside the if function.


And, in case that doesn't work, is this code in a class or on a movieclip or on a frame?

I am doing it in a frame, but i want it to go to a certain position and it only does it once and i am moving the movie clip with the arrow keys (ss is a variable for a movie clip)

onEnterFrame = function(){
if(ss.hitTest(_root.c2)){
ss._x = -49.4;
}
}

does not do any better ^^

This probably won't make any difference whatsoever, but try using function onEnterFrame(){ instead of onEnterFrame = function(){
Are you sure this frame is "active" when you are trying the hittest a second time?

As i thought a Syntax Error :S, does onEnterFrame(){ without a function even exist?

There's a function in front of it, look at my last post.

ahh, i did not see that no error but the script only did it once again.

Are you sure everything is still on this frame when you are trying the hittest a second time? and you aren't changing what object "ss" is?

yep same frame!

This is wierd, this should work!

Strange...You sure nothing else is interfering with it in any way?

Nope :/

I don't see anything wrong with that code then. Something is probably changing after ss hits c2 the first time that it preventing it from running the hittest the second time, like you changing a variable or something... Is there something before the hittest like
if(...){
if(ss.hitTest(_root.c2)){
ss._x = -49.4;
}
}

Nope there is just that script in that frame!
But in the movieclip's frames there is some moving scripts, can that change?

Depends if the variable "ss" is the entire movieClip or just part of it that goes away when the frame is changed