Direction change from inside a movie clip

[funkydreadman]

hi can anyone help?

I am learning action script at the mo. and am just thinking of simple actions and then trying to implement them.

I started by creating two buttons,
and then wired them to a counter,
one button makes the counter go up and the other go down.
simple stuff so far.

I then but one button in a movie clip and called it target_mc


Then made this movie clip move across the stage from left to right. by using the code that follows

target_mc._x = Stage.width = 1;
target_mc._y = Stage.height = 180.1;

target_mc.onEnterFrame = function()
{
target_mc._x += 10; // increase current _x position by 10 pixels
if (target_mc._x >= 550)
{
target_mc._x = -80;
target_mc.onEnterFrame;
}
};

Still all groovy at this point.

On the button inside the movie clip I added _root. To my button so it still made the counter work on the main time line.

Then I thought I would change the direction and make my movie clip
go down following the Y direction. When the button is pressed

So added the following code in the movie clip

neg_btn.onRelease = function(){
_root.outputNum = _root.outputNum -1

_root.target_mc.onEnterFrame = function()

{
_root.target_mc._y += 10; // decrease current _y position by 10 pixels
if (_root.target_mc._y >= 400)
{
_root.target_mc._x = -80;
_root.target_mc._y = Stage.height = 180.1;


}

};
};

so when my movie clip hits the bottom of the stage it is then placed on the left hand side of the stage (off screen ready to come on again)

This is where I am stuck

As my movie clip is now repeatedly going down the Y access. (off screen)

I now want it to come back on the page start moving back along the X access.
As it was previously

Does this make sense to any one can any one help???


Cheers

[marSoul]

its better if u send the file...