Reflecting collisions

For the project I'm working on, I need to make objects 'bounce' off a circle (reflect at their angle of incidence). I came up with a solution that works reasonably well, with a few odd glitches - pretty sure I could work those out. Unfortunately, it also crashes the runtime sometimes, which is a deal-breaker.

[I know, crashes are always bugs! Submitted to the tracker.]

Does anyone have an alternative method? Surely there's a neat trigonometry solution to this. Hell, I was kind of surprised it was possible to do without trig.

http://dl.getdropbox.com/u/906550/bouncetest-02.cap

I don't have Construct installed in this laptop but I did tackle this issue once.

However..... on second thought .... I was reflecting from a flat surface. Still I'm pretty sure it involves ATAN2

I had this huge trigonometric expression only to figure out later that Construct had it built in.

If that method worked, I guess it's time I learned more about trigonometry.

I've definitely had the 'oh, it's built-in!' experience with Construct - making this, I was kind of struggling until I found the 'Angle is clockwise from' system condition.

see my post near the end of this thread

theres a long explanation, and an example cap:

scirra.com/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=4169&start=10

Wow. Okay, your way uses less events, detects more reliably, runs faster, and doesn't crash. Thanks, Lucid!