Sprite movement using arrow keys

Question

Hello,
I have been working on a dragonball z game recently and I
have encountered a problem with the sprites.I have traced the
bitmap and everything else and even created a movieclip of the
sprite.I have put this code on the movieclip-
Code: ( text )
onClipEvent (load) {
step = 5;
onClipEvent (enterFrame) {
if (Key.isDown(Key.RIGHT) && this._x<550) {
this._x += step;
gotoAndPlay(2);
} else if (Key.isDown(Key.LEFT) && this._x>0) {
this._x -= step;
gotoAndPlay(10);
} else if (Key.isDown(Key.UP) && this._y>0) {
this._y -= step;
gotoAndPlay(15);
} else if (Key.isDown(Key.DOWN) && this._y<400) {
this._y += step;
gotoAndPlay(6);
I have put animations of the character walking on the
differnet frames inside the movieclip.For eg-
I have shown the character walking right from frame
2-5,walking down from frame 6-9,walking left from
frame10-14,walking up from frame 15-19.
THE PROBLEM is that whenever I press a specefic key(I will
take the example of right) and keep it pressed,IT DOES NOT PLAY THE
WHOlE ANI:MATION OF MOVING RIGHT.It just plays frame 2 and repeats
it instead of playing frames 2-5 together.
HELP is required!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Answer 1

Hi chinmayagoyal,
the problem is that your clip will be sent to frame 2, 10,
15, or 6 every time you press a key. So when you keep the key
pressed, it will keep sending the clip to that frame. You should
check if the animation is at a certain point.
Example: right movement: frame 2 to 6
if (Key.isDown(Key.RIGHT) && this._x<550) {
this._x += step;
if(this._currentframe==1 or this._currentframe>5){
gotoAndPlay(2);
Good luck,
Rick.