I finally go it working. I had to remove a "system go to layout" from the mouse click event.

This didn't work:

On mouse click: system go to layer, play sound1

On ended sound1: play sound 2

Only sound1 would play. I still don't know why.

Thanks for the help.

I am trying to get the sounds to play one after the other as actions triggered by a left mouse click. "On ended" is only available as a trigger event.

Example:

On mouse click: play sound1, then play sound2

I am having trouble getting two sounds to play one after the other. They play at the same time.

I tried using 'system wait' between the audio actions, but the second sound just doesn't play at all. When I use 'system wait' elsewhere in the same action, the delay works.

System "compare two values" and checking shadow.count worked great. I only get the single shadow and not an infinity on the spawn.

Now, when a different object tries to spawn the same shadow sprite in a different location the <1 count prevents it from making the needed extra copy. Is there a way to allow multiple locations using the shadow.count technique? Can the counting be specific to an object instead of being a global count.

"trigger once while true" was too limiting.

How would I go about doing that? Should I make the "or" event (the one that I want to add the conditions to) have no actions on its own and then add a sub event with the conditions?

Is it possible to have an "or" block listing events with conditions added.

For example:

event

or

event with 1 condition

or

event with 2 conditions

It seems to only allow a single event/condition per "or".

"on collision with" worked perfectly. Thanks again.

But here's another question...

Is there a glossary of some type that shows you all the possible functions for events and actions, and where to find them? Sometimes just reading all the options inspires an idea. I didn't notice the "on collision with" or "trigger once while true" functions before because I was fishing for ideas inside and existing event that already had a trigger active, so it didn't show all the other possible trigger events.

There are also functions that are only found under actions or events. It seems like a glossary would be handy, or maybe even have the functions greyed out with a help window explaining why they are not available.

Thank you for the responses. I am now trying variables and triggers.

I am having trouble getting a single sprite to spawn when the event conditions are met.

When the player sprite is overlapping the block sprite I need a shadow sprite to spawn only once. If the player stays in position, only one shadow sprite is needed. If the player moves and comes back to overlapping the same sprite, I only want the original shadow sprite to exist unless it was previously destroyed.

What is happening is an infinite number of sprites are being created on top of one another.

How do I spawn just a single sprite?

Thank you everyone. It makes much more sense now.

What is actually being saved when you have multiple capx open? If I have one current version and two older versions open and I click "save", which one is being saved?

How do I link the layouts and events that I DO want? It appears that I have 3 versions in the "projects bar" to the right.