Space shooter movement problem

[TealHydra]

what up

I've been working on a little spaceshooter thing to learn MMF2 and it's been going fine so far with one glaring exception, and that is the behavior of the ship when it hits the edge of the screen.

Due to the way I did it ('if ship exits play area, stop ship') the ship tends to 'snag' on the edge of the screen when moving diagonally, rather than ceasing X movement and continuing Y movement. (or vice-versa)

In other words, if you hold DOWN and LEFT while at the left edge of the screen, you will very slowly crawl downwards when i would prefer it if the game simply acted as if you were only pressing DOWN.

Recent mfa so you can see what i mean: http://www.mediafire.com/?yvwpnfhc8b33b2l

Any help / examples would be appreciated.

[nivram]

You need to make a collision box and put your spaceship always in the box. Set all your movements to the box. Make your box invisible.

Marv

[TealHydra]

Got it working! Thanks.