Movement program

On September  29th I started  working on an  Actionscript  3.0 "Movement"  program. The link to the finished project is here. Adobe  Flash 5 comes  with certain  stock buttons  that I think  look awesome,  so I wanted to  combine that  with the code  snippets that  are also found  shipped with  the program.  The buttons  that I like so  much are found  in Window>  Common  Libraries>  Buttons>  Classic  Buttons>  Arcade Buttons  (At the top).

The code  snippet that used came  from Code  Snippets/  Event  Handlers/  Mouse Click  Event (On the little side panel). 

This is the  code entire  code snippet:

/* Mouse Click  Event

Clicking on  the specified  symbol  instance  executes a  function in  which you can  add your own  custom code.

Instructions:

1. Add your custom code on a new line after the line that says "// Start your custom code" below.

The code will execute when the symbol instance is clicked.

*/

button_1.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, fl_MouseClickHandler);

function fl_MouseClickHandler(event:MouseEvent):void

{

// Start your custom code

// This example code displays the words "Mouse clicked" in the Output panel.

trace("Red");

// End your custom code

}

I put the trace method in there because I was starting with the red button first and I wanted the output menu to trace "Red" instead of the more generic "Mouse clicked". When I got confirmation of the working program I combined that code snippet with another which was to move the object across the screen. 

Here is that one: 

instance_name_here.x -= 10;

And this is the part where I started cutting out all of the extra information given with the snippet. I would eventually make two movement buttons and then four: Left, Up, Right and then Down. Up and down were on the Y axis while left and right were on the X axis. 

instance_name_here.x += 10;

The script worked for the first left/right buttons on either side, so I moved on to the up/down buttons in the middle.

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instance_name_here.y -= 10;

instance_name_here.y += 10;

The idea is that every time the button is clicked, the position (X or Y) is increased by a pre-determined number.