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@davmac, thanks I finally got it working! @danpost, no problem and thanks for all the help and for the random thing. @tylers, I tried that and it doesn't seem to work ill mess with it and see if I can figure that out. It sure would be simpler.

I added a 'bigRefresh();' as the first statement in the scroll() method, and it seemed to work OK.

Wow thanks for such a quick response. I had the x and y starting at 15 from inspecting the arrays earlier, forgot to change'm when I pasted the code here. I didn't know about the getRed/blue/green() methods, I was just trying to inspect using greenfoot (which didn't tell me much). I'm guessing they are part of the Color class? Never thought to check that. I found out that the template color wasn't entered in correctly. I changed one number and it all worked! Thanks a bunch.

You could add an instance variable to the Platform class to hold a reference to the player on the platform (or null, if none). <Code Omitted>Then, when you move the platform, check for 'player' not being 'null', and if not, also move the player the same amount. If the player moves or jumps off the platform, set the platform 'playerOn' variable back to 'null'. It might be wise to have an instance variable 'onPlatform' to hold a reference to the platform the player landed on. ** On th

Use the setPaintOrder method. Check it out in the Greenfoot API, in the World class. That will at least help straighten out the different classes; however, will not help with actors of the same class. To make them show over others of the same class, save its location, remove it, and add it back into the world. <Code Omitted>

Your setDirection() code can be reduced to: <Code Omitted>

THANKS! everything works exactly how I wanted it to

You're welcome :)

Sure: <Code Omitted>Do this in act(). Replace theXCoordinate and theYCoordinate by numbers, which are the coordinates of the location you want to hit.

Just to explain something else you may have missed, line 18 from your original post: GreenfootImage expandedImages = imgs; ... doesn't make a copy of the array, it just creates another reference to it. So the following lines: imgs = expandedImages; imgs = expandedImages; ... are either redundant (first line above) or modify the original array (second line above).

Thank you danpost. I was able to get my questions answered!

Wow... Thanks davmac, I can't believe I didn't notice that! That would explain the character sinking into the ground since he's taller than he is wide... Well I think from now on I'm not just going look for what might be wrong with how I'm doing it, I'll look for typos first :D!

thanks that helps

The exclamation mark translates to 'not'. Like in "if not dancing".

Thanks! That's helping me with so much more than just that one issue.