Flash MX 2004 coding question.

Slayer5227

We have been making a pong game in class for the past 2 weeks. It is almost done but we are stuck on a line of code a fellow classmate gave us and said that we only have to make an adjustment to, what that adjustment is, is beyond me. The code is as follows:
onClipEvent (enterFrame){
if (Key.isDown(87))this._y-=20;
if (Key.isDown(83))this._y+=20;
}
onClipEvent(enterFrame)
{
var Ballx = _root.ball._x-_root.ball._width/2;
var xspeed = _root.ball.xspeed;
var yspeed = _root.ball.yspeed;
var endx = Ballx-xspeed;
var endy = Bally-yspeed;
var endz = Bally-yspeed;
if((endx) < (this._x+this._width/2) && (endy) > (this._y+this._height/2+_root.ball.width/2) && (endz) < (this._y-this.height/2+_root.ball.width/2))
{
_root.ball._x = (this._x)+this._width/2+_root.ball._width/2;
_root.ball.xspeed*=-1;
if(_root.ball.xspeed<30 && _root.ball.xspeed>-30)
{
_root.ball.xspeed*=1.1;
}
}
}
This is the code for the paddle, the error is in this line:
if((endx) < (this._x+this._width/2) && (endy) > (this._y+this._height/2+_root.ball.width/2) && (endz) < (this._y-this.height/2+_root.ball.width/2))
Any help would be appreciated, thanks.

Linc

1) Learning Actionscript in 2012 is an irresponsible waste of time. You shouldn't be in that class.
2) Whoever wrote that code should be punched. It's an illegible mess, and the variable names are stupendously bad.
3) You can't ask the classmate wtf they were talking about?
4) You didn't provide what the error was.

Remembering precisely nothing about Actionscript, I reformatted your noted line above to be legible:

if ( (endx < (this._x + this._width/2)) 
   && (endy > (this._y + this._height/2 + _root.ball.width/2)) 
   && (endz < (this._y - this.height/2 + _root.ball.width/2)) 
)

Looking at that code, the only thing that jumps out at me is that you use this._height in the second condition and then this.height (no underscore) in the third condition. Typo or intended?

Slayer5227

Typo, wow, if that's the problem, I'm going to kick myself so badly. And I agree, completely useless, but I already am in it and might as well finish it out. The person who wrote the code is the "genius" coder of the class, and is a very condescending human being, maybe that will knock him down a few pegs haha. Thanks.

Linc

A "genius" coder who writes illegible code is no genius at all. He has a hell of a lot to learn.

Slayer5227

He is also 18, I doubt he is much of a "genius" anything at this point, so much to learn in life, and I doubt he has the entire coding language down.

shwaip

_dem _underscores

Slayer5227

That wasn't the problem (at least not the only one).