What is valo or velo ?

[hovercraft]

I've seen both of these used in various tutorials on the web. However the tutorials never explain what this line is or what it does.

example:

this._x -= this.velo;

I checked LiveDocs and Flash's help with no luck.

Any idea's ?

Thanks,
Dave

 

[hovercraft]

this is a tutorial referencing Velo

http://www.kirupa.com/developer/actionscript/vertical_shooter4.htm

and there is a post here in Tek-Tips
thread250-686173

 

[hovercraft]

Ah...nevermind I sort of kind of figured it out.
I'm still not sure of "HOW" it works but I now know "WHAT" it's doing.
Thanks anyways...

Dave

 

[oldnewbie]

Just a variable name I guess... Velo...city?

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[hovercraft]

yeah, it's just a variable name. But it was coded kinda odd to me. It wasn't declared before hand.

It was referenced in a function that uses another variable name to define "which". So it was written as

"which.velo"

I thought it may have been a method or something for "velocity" as it was used to move an image across the screen.