Problem with calculating bullet distance from origin

Hi there,

I'm having some trouble with a prototype I'm working on.

Which you can grab here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B_Xd56ZdrBpYQ1dIb2l4cnpKajA/view?usp=sharing

There idea is that when you click the left mouse button, the flytrap shoots his tongue (or more importantly the tongueTip object, a bullet). The tongue's width is supposed to always remain the distance between the bullet and it's origin, the flytrap (turret).

The problem is that the tongueTip object's x and y positions appear to not be updating. I made a global variable and linked the tongue's width to that , but no luck.

The debug shows that neither the global variable, or the x and y positions of the tongueTip are updating, despite the fact that it's moving across the screen.

Would love any help I can get.

Thanks in advance

it's because of the instances you have off the side of the layout (their distance never changes). on start of layout, destroy the tongue and tongue tip and it works.

Beautiful, I knew it was something dumb I was doing.

Thanks man!