Thanks dop2000, but I knew I forgot to mention something.

My paddle is moving 360 around the play area. So I can't use X to calculate the angle. the bullet bounce of solids doesn't really work for me either.

why go to all caps if you just wanna revert it later?

I made a little pong game for fun. I currently set the balls angle using

angle(Paddle.X ,Paddle.Y,Self.X,Self.Y)

now I want the position where the ball hits the paddle to be effective. But I don't want to ignore the angle of collision which is what this does.

I tried some things. but didn't work. So how do I do this?

good call. it was necessary in an older build but useless now. as it is always 50 now. thanks for the heads up —

that fixed it, thanks Nepeo!

So I'm having a weird thing happening. in the following code block.

a little explanation about what this does.

MapCreate runs after I filled LevelArray with 50 random numbers.

So as soon as it has created 50 map Icons it should be finished. after which I call location which sets the text to where the player is.

now this event calls without a problem. but the event after. The for each MapIcon doesn't. but only doesn't the first time I call the function. if I call it after it works fine.

any idea why this isn't working as intended?

this is amazing piranha, a very clear example of how to do this, thanks a lot!

Allright. I'm following so far. Does this mean I also can't access the global variables in the event sheet? And if so, what would be the workaround for these cases?

I understand what you mean, I just haven't a single clue as to how I would do that.

That's just the problem. I know that I need to define it before I can assign values. but how do I assign it to this array.

that's what I'm having trouble with understanding.

thanks Ashley,

the problem is more that my code is probably not making any sense as I do not know how to access other parts. what I'm doing is as following

function stringSplit(){

var x = inputString.value.toLowerCase();

CommandArray = x.split(' ');

}

inputstring is a global string. CommandArray is an Array object. and I'm activating this script in block ( which as I just thought of won't even call the code as of now)

but I might have been looking for answers in the wrong spot, as I was trying to search through the How do I?.. forum

Luckily I have actually started using Javascript a couple of months ago. but I'm still an absolute beginner at it. So I have a couple of simple questions.

What I'm trying to do is clear an array (as the input may have varying lengths), get a string split and put it in said array and then get the arrays length and put it in a global number.

But what is throwing me for a loop is how to actually access said values and arrays. as they are a global values and an array object. Like I said. total beginner.

I knew I was missing something. thanks dop