Need Action Script Help PLEEAASEE

Question

I have a project that and  is a prize wheel, here is my code for starting and stopping the wheel
if (Key.isDown(Key.ENTER))
speed=speed*.99;
else if (Key.isDown(Key.RIGHT)){
    speed=5;
else if (Key.isDown(Key.LEFT)){
    speed=0;
this._visible=true;
The right and left key functions work perfect but the enter key needs to be "held down" until the wheel slowly stops. I want to be able to just press the "Enter" key and the wheel will slowly (randomly)come to a halt. the problem code is in bold. any help would be great.

Answer 1

Assuming you really mean you want to press and release the Enter key, what you need to do is have something else play the role of what the "if (Key.isDown(Key.ENTER))" line does for you in terms of repeatedly changing the speed value.  Something in the way of an onEnterFrame activity that gets intiated by the pressing of the Enter key, but just once... you need something to only allow it to intiate that enterFrame once...
So somewhere outside that code you want to have a Boolean variable that is used when the Enter key is pressed which conditionally calls a function that initiates the enterframe activity and then sets that value to false to keep it from being called again.  That variable could be reset to true when the RIGHT key initiates a new go.  So pressing the Enter key sets that variable to true.  The code would follow along the lines of what I show below, but I cannot say it's polished stuff as shown... just the concept is attempted.  I don't know what other code you have involved in matters.
var startSlowing = true;
if (Key.isDown(Key.ENTER))
     if(startSlowing){
          slowItDown();
          startSlowing = false;
else if (Key.isDown(Key.RIGHT)){
    speed=5;
    if(!startSlowing ){ // means it was restarted in mid-spin
          delete this.onEnterFrame;
      startSlowing = true;
else if (Key.isDown(Key.LEFT)){
    speed=0;
    if(!startSlowing){
          delete this.onEnterFrame;
function slowItDown(){
     this.onEnterFrame = function(){
          speed=speed*.99;
          if(speed < someLimit){
               delete this.onEnterFrame;