How do I add top down shooting

i know how to do it with a ROTATING player sprite but what if theres a static player sprite that does not rotate and rotating its image point where to spawn the bullet to chase the position where the cursor was when the left mouse button was clicked?

i tried this :

but as you can see here : http://www.burningcake.com/test/index.html

its not working good .(just move to a corner and shoot down)

why set the gun towards the mouse?

you could just set the bullet angle towards the mouse, right?

I'm not sure what is causing the bullets to be off, but it might have to do with the layer, using mouse.x(0) and mouse.y(0) would solve that in that case..

... and rotating its image point where to spawn the bullet to chase the position where the cursor was when the left mouse button was clicked?

I don't get this part, but from your example I deduce that you want something like this.

-Edit--> as LittleStain also points out...

you guys rock , thanks for the rapid solution !