FLASH: Custom Function within an instance

[Paul Steven]

Hi all


I am dabbling with creating custom functions in a Pacman style game I am

making.


Now I have successfully created a function which is located in frame 1 of a

layer called "Actions".


I have a movie clip on the stage that I control using the arrow keys on the

keyboard. This movie clip calls the function to check if it can move in a

certain direction. This works fine.


On my Character movie clip, I have a keyDown ClipEvent script that takes

care of the keyboard controls. I also have an enterFrame ClipEvent that

takes care of animating the character. Now there is alot of duplicate code

in my enterFrame ClipEvent code so I want to create a custom function to

reduce this code.


I have tried to place this custom function after the enterFrame ClipEvent

but I am getting the following error message:


Scene=Scene 1, Layer=Character, Frame=1: Line 13: Statement must appear

within onClipEvent handler

     function Move_Me (passed_Direction) {


Anyone know why - are you allowed to place custom functions in such a place?


Any help on this matter would be much appreciated


Paul



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