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OK, I put the forever block around them and he still just moves about 1 step every 12 seconds .... HHHH????

Hey, doing it That way works !   Apparently when I typed in the -10 steps to make him go backwards I confused the program.  Taking that out and it works now.  Am I not supposed to type in negative numbers?
Thanks

lolligag wrote:

Hey, doing it That way works !   Apparently when I typed in the -10 steps to make him go backwards I confused the program.  Taking that out and it works now.  Am I not supposed to type in negative numbers?
Thanks

No, you can do negatives fine. And move 10 steps isn't really *how to put it* an "action" so to speak, as in, it's a matter of distance, not a matter of animation

lolligag wrote:

Thank you Bluestribute for your patience with a new user (plus I'm really old!).

I suppose my question is "how fast should the cat take those 10 steps" just using that motion command ?

block<move(10  )steps>block

Starting a brand new project with just that block a double click produces one step, that's all.  I just installed version 1.2.1 by the way.   I hate to proceed learning the program if my computer can't handle it. 

as I said, thanks again.

Your welcome. And since you said your new, here is a tip I don't know if you know- if you want the "glide" effect, use the

<glide(  )secs to x    )y  

block. And to get your walking animation (since you seemed confused about the steps) you need to have walking costumes, so when you move 10 steps, you also will switch to you next costume. If you don't know what I am talking about, click my name, click on Mario Bros Demo, and look at Mario's script. It keeps checking whether first- if he's fighting (attacking variable) and second, is the key still pressed (many of the same scripts inside the if key pressed script)