How do I change direction with tap?

Hello. My first post! I am going through tutorials and learning the basics of C2 at this point.

I want to create a simple player control where each tap reverses the player movement.

Game Start: Player Idle

First Tap: Player moves right

Second Tap: Player moves left

Third Tap: Player moves right

and so on, while continuously facing forward. Can anyone point to the tutorial or methods to do this?

I am trying to detect which way the Player is moving and accelerating towards Player.X + or - 2000, but not doing anything correctly, not to mention this probably requires 2 taps to reverse movement.

(Pic of my failed control attempt)

https://drive.google.com/open?id=0ByWkQ ... 2Y1UHRBdkE

Thank you in advance.

First off, welcome to the wonderful world of C2!

You could put a boolean instance variable on the player to keep up with which way it's going. call it "isleft" (or whatever you like).

on touch >>>

(subevent)-If player isleft = "true" >>> set isleft false AND start moving player right

----------------Else >>> set isleft true and start moving player left.

EDIT: oh, actually that won't work with the way you're doing the movement...

let me rewrite:

on touch >>>

(subevent)-If player isleft = "true" >>> set isleft false

----------------Else >>> set isleft true

(new event)

if player isleft=true >>> move left

else >>> move right.

Thanks for the welcome and the reply spacedoubt!

Will give this method a try!

Thanks to your advice I was able to move left and right with a tap!

It is working splendidly.

However, if I make a quick successive taps, it will only register the turn once.

(if I double tap, the two actions should cancel out so the player should zigzag a bit and keep going. However currently it will only recognize one tap, and will only change direction once)

How would I be able to fix this issue?

Here is the Capx file just incase.

https://drive.google.com/open?id=0ByWkQ ... WprRmdIZkU

Here is the Event page screenshot

https://drive.google.com/open?id=0ByWkQ ... m1FT3Y5VTA

Fixed myself!

I changed input event from "on tap" to "any touch start" and its working now!

Sweet! Yeah, 'on tap' triggers on a quick touch and release... It also makes me want a beer...