Flash actionscript problem

tincat

Hi all,

This is a bit obscure.

I am working on a game. It is 20 seconds long, and the player has to hit as many moving objects as he can. There are two types of objects, one that scores 1 point(z) and one that scores 5 points(n).

the variables are :

z=0;
n=0;
speedz=4;
speedn=8;
intervalz=12;
intervaln=24;
hitz=0;
hitn=0;
score=0;
missed=0;
time=20;

The scores are set as follows:

Z

on (press) {
gotoAndPlay(2);
_root.score++;
}

N

on (press) {
gotoAndPlay(2);
_root.score+=5;
}

However, when the game plays, the only scores that show up are one of the following: blank, 0, 2, 20, 22. Basically any combination of 2 and 0 or a blank space where the score should be.

If I change the time in the variables to 61 or 37 or whatever, it will only show : blank, 1, 6, 16, 61 or blank, 3, 7, 37.

Can anyone shed any light on this? If you need the source fla I would be happy to email it to you.

Thanks

paddyrg

Perhaps the time variable is being used twice somewhere, and is being interpreted as text. Can you 'strong type' in actionscript? If so, try changing the variable name to timeCountDown or something, and type is as a tiny integer?