redrawing an object

#1 well it is kinda hard to help without seeing some code of what you are trying to do but as to my best guess is your playing the catapult arming thread while it is being dragged right?

If so then i think i will just make a wild leap at what the problem might be here, i am probably way off the mark but hey common problems are common for a reason. TGE sometimes has oddities with it's animations. Non cyclic animations remain in there play state after they are done playing so in order to be replayed they need to be told to stop unfortunatly

%thing.stopThread(0);
%thing.playthread(0, "danceAway");

Sadly that won't work, because there is some latency in stopping it so you need to schedule the stop to occur some time after the thread has finished or schedule the playthread to a short while after you stop it.

Of course without being able to see just what exactly you are doing i cannot say wheter that helps or not but might be worth double checking to see if it could be the problem.

#2 Here's some code to look at and disregard the lat comment (if it were true I wouldn't be asking lol). Thanks again.

function playerTouchClass::onTimer(%this)
{
	if (%this.released)
	{
		%currentSpeed = %this.getLinearVelocity();
		%adjustedSpeed = t2dVectorAdd(%currentSpeed, $gravity);
		%this.setLinearVelocity(%adjustedSpeed);
	}
}


function backgroundClass::onMouseDown(%this, %modifier, %worldPosition, %clicks)
{
	//echo("touch works");
	
	// draw the caatapult
	
	// left side
	
	playerTouch.released = false;
	
	playerTouch.setLinearVelocity(0, 0);
	playerTouch.setPosition(%worldPosition);
	
	%leftVector = t2dVectorSub(%worldPosition, leftPoint.getPosition());
	
	%leftVectorScaled = t2dVectorScale(%leftVector, 0.5);
	leftSpring.setPosition(t2dVectorAdd(leftPoint.getPosition(), %leftVectorScaled));


	%rotationAngleLeft = mRadToDeg(mATan(getWord(%leftVector, 1), getWord(%leftVector, 0))) + 90;
	leftSpring.setRotation(%rotationAngleLeft);
	
	leftSpring.setSizeY(t2dVectorLength(%leftVector));
	
	// right side
	
	%rightVector = t2dVectorSub(%worldPosition, rightPoint.getPosition());
	
	%rightVectorScaled = t2dVectorScale(%rightVector, 0.5);
	rightSpring.setPosition(t2dVectorAdd(rightPoint.getPosition(), %rightVectorScaled));


	%rotationAngleRight = mRadToDeg(mATan(getWord(%rightVector, 1), getWord(%rightVector, 0))) + 90;
	rightSpring.setRotation(%rotationAngleRight);
	
	rightSpring.setSizeY(t2dVectorLength(%rightVector));

}


function backgroundClass::onMouseDragged(%this, %modifier, %worldPosition, %clicks)
{
	//echo("touch works");
	
	// draw the catapult
	
	// left side
	
	playerTouch.setPosition(%worldPosition);
	
	%leftVector = t2dVectorSub(%worldPosition, leftPoint.getPosition());
	
	%leftVectorScaled = t2dVectorScale(%leftVector, 0.5);
	leftSpring.setPosition(t2dVectorAdd(leftPoint.getPosition(), %leftVectorScaled));


	%rotationAngleLeft = mRadToDeg(mATan(getWord(%leftVector, 1), getWord(%leftVector, 0))) + 90;
	leftSpring.setRotation(%rotationAngleLeft);
	
	leftSpring.setSizeY(t2dVectorLength(%leftVector));
	
	// right side
	
	%rightVector = t2dVectorSub(%worldPosition, rightPoint.getPosition());
	
	%rightVectorScaled = t2dVectorScale(%rightVector, 0.5);
	rightSpring.setPosition(t2dVectorAdd(rightPoint.getPosition(), %rightVectorScaled));


	%rotationAngleRight = mRadToDeg(mATan(getWord(%rightVector, 1), getWord(%rightVector, 0))) + 90;
	rightSpring.setRotation(%rotationAngleRight);
	
	rightSpring.setSizeY(t2dVectorLength(%rightVector));

}










function backgroundClass::onMouseUp(%this, %modifier, %worldPosition, %clicks)
{
	// fire the object
	
	playerTouch.released = true;
	
	// first find the midpoint
	
	%midvector = t2dVectorSub(leftPoint.getPosition(), rightPoint.getPosition());
	%midPoint = t2dVectorAdd(rightPoint.getPosition(), t2dVectorScale(%midVector, 0.5));
	%aimVector = t2dVectorSub(%midpoint, playerTouch.getPosition());
	%aimVector = t2dVectorScale(%aimVector, 2);
	
	playertouch.setLinearVelocity(%aimVector);
	
	// attempts to reset the catapults position
	
	
}

#3 That script does not look like anything i know of from TGE. I am guessing TGB? If so i think you might get better help over in TGB's forums.

#4 Hmm ok not sure where the distinction between the two really is but I'll go post this there as well. Thanks for your help.