I'll preface this by saying that, while I know a fair bit about C#, ASP.Net, HTML, etc... I am a mere pre-novice when it comes to AS3 scripting for Flash.
The basic idea of what I'm trying to do here is to create a simple children's mathematics game which runs through various mathematics excercises and uses coloured number tiles to 'fill-the-blanks'.
I've already figured out how to allow the user to pick up and move the tiles, how to ensure that the tiles can only be dropped on pre-determined targets and return them to their starting position if they aren't and how to allow a user to pick a tile up off the targets to drop them back where they started as well.
What I'm curious about is how to create a 'duplicate' of the number tile once it's been placed on a target where the duplicate appears in the original starting position of the chosen tile and has identical (enough) properties to the original that I can use it in the same way as the original (say the answer to a question is 11, they need to be able to select 2x "1" tiles).
I'm also curious as to what type of event I can use to 'register' that when the "1" tile is placed on a target square the value of "1" should be stored in a variable.
What I have so far is this:
var startX:Number;
var startY:Number;
var tile_Y:Number = 595;
var tile_0_X:Number = 5;
var tile_1_X:Number = 85;
var tile_2_X:Number = 165;
var tile_3_X:Number = 245;
var tile_4_X:Number = 325;
var tile_5_X:Number = 405;
var tile_6_X:Number = 485;
var tile_7_X:Number = 565;
var tile_8_X:Number = 645;
var tile_9_X:Number = 725;
var targ_1_X:Number = target_1.x;
var targ_1_Y:Number = target_1.y;
var targ_2_X:Number = target_2.x;
var targ_2_Y:Number = target_2.y;
tile_0.addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_DOWN, pickUp);
tile_0.addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_UP, dropIt);
tile_1.addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_DOWN, pickUp);
tile_1.addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_UP, dropIt);
tile_2.addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_DOWN, pickUp);
tile_2.addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_UP, dropIt);
tile_3.addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_DOWN, pickUp);
tile_3.addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_UP, dropIt);
tile_4.addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_DOWN, pickUp);
tile_4.addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_UP, dropIt);
tile_5.addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_DOWN, pickUp);
tile_5.addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_UP, dropIt);
tile_6.addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_DOWN, pickUp);
tile_6.addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_UP, dropIt);
tile_7.addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_DOWN, pickUp);
tile_7.addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_UP, dropIt);
tile_8.addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_DOWN, pickUp);
tile_8.addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_UP, dropIt);
tile_9.addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_DOWN, pickUp);
tile_9.addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_UP, dropIt);
function pickUp(event:MouseEvent):void {
event.target.startDrag();
event.target.parent.addChild(event.target);
startX = event.target.x;
startY = event.target.y;
}
function dropIt(event:MouseEvent):void {
event.target.stopDrag();
var myTargetName:String = "target_1";
var myTarget:DisplayObject = getChildByName(myTargetName);
var myTargetName2:String = "target_2";
var myTarget2:DisplayObject = getChildByName(myTargetName2);
if (event.target.dropTarget != null && event.target.dropTarget.parent == myTarget){
event.target.x = targ_1_X;
event.target.y = targ_1_Y;
}
else if (event.target.dropTarget != null && event.target.dropTarget.parent == myTarget2){
event.target.x = targ_2_X;
event.target.y = targ_2_Y;
}
else {
if ((startX == targ_1_X && startY == targ_1_Y) || (startX == targ_2_X && startY == targ_2_Y))
{
var bName:String = event.target.name;
if (event.target.dropTarget == null){
if (bName == "tile_0")
{
startX = tile_0_X;
startY = tile_Y;
}
if (bName == "tile_1")
{
startX = tile_1_X;
startY = tile_Y;
}
if (bName == "tile_2")
{
startX = tile_2_X;
startY = tile_Y;
}
if (bName == "tile_3")
{
startX = tile_3_X;
startY = tile_Y;
}
if (bName == "tile_4")
{
startX = tile_4_X;
startY = tile_Y;
}
if (bName == "tile_5")
{
startX = tile_5_X;
startY = tile_Y;
}
if (bName == "tile_6")
{
startX = tile_6_X;
startY = tile_Y;
}
if (bName == "tile_7")
{
startX = tile_7_X;
startY = tile_Y;
}
if (bName == "tile_8")
{
startX = tile_8_X;
startY = tile_Y;
}
if (bName == "tile_9")
{
startX = tile_9_X;
startY = tile_Y;
}
}
else if (event.target.dropTarget.parent == myTarget){
event.target.x = targ_1_X;
event.target.y = targ_1_Y;
}
else if (event.target.dropTarget.parent == myTarget2){
event.target.x = targ_2_X;
event.target.y = targ_2_Y;
}
}
event.target.x = startX;
event.target.y = startY;
}
}
tile_0.buttonMode = true;
tile_1.buttonMode = true;
tile_2.buttonMode = true;
tile_3.buttonMode = true;
tile_4.buttonMode = true;
tile_5.buttonMode = true;
tile_6.buttonMode = true;
tile_7.buttonMode = true;
tile_8.buttonMode = true;
tile_9.buttonMode = true;As you can see, for someone who's never touched AS3 before I'm not doing TOO badly to start but I'm somewhat stuck at this point.
Thanks in advance for your assistance :twisted:
Edit: I had a choice between putting this in Graphics and Multimedia or Game Design as it would fit in either but I'm surprised there isn't a Flash forum considering there's forums for virtually every other coding environment.
