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can anybody help me? please check the attached game demo.
you can move the player via the arrow keys which works fine.

however! try using the onscreen arrows (click them).
you will see the player isnt moving at all?? why?
i´m triggering the SAME function - so he should move, no ??

this is so weird, can anybody help me?? please ?

why are you using such a scew-iff way of doing this? lol just use a direction variable, then on the player use if animindex!= to change its animation. using void for this is a really awkward thing to do. so yeah, just use a variable instead of the void function and it should work perfectly.

savvy

perhaps you´re right
just tried the movecode directly upon mouse button down instead of putting it into a function ... and guess what, player moves correctly.
i still only dont understand why it did not work before

perhaps the switch wasnt working properly

Okay, chances are it is the global code actor variable problem. Essentially global code can't access other actor's actor variables unless the event code has some reference to the actor. For example, this will not turn the player actor red.
Global Code

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void
colorActor ()
{
    player.r=0;
    player.g=0;
    player.b=0;
}

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colorActor();

But this code will.

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// player
colorActor();

So if you use any instances of actorName.actorVar it won't work unless in the event that calls the global code you reference actorName in some way. I can't tell if that is the case here as the file I guess was emptied, but that might be the problem you are having.

ah, i remember! that was the problem i once had also... thanks!!