Function of player movement code not being recognized?

Because I’ve written it so many times now, I’ve tried making a function for the code needed to make a sprite move with your keyboard presses, but during testing it isn’t responding. I tried moving it out of update = function ()onto starting in the same column as update = function (), but then the console tells me that it isn’t recognized as a function.

https://microstudio.io/i/Trondei/headstartfunctions/

hs_walkControl_A = function ( input_x, input_y, speed = 1 )
  
  if keyboard.UP or gamepad.UP 
  then input_y += speed end
  if keyboard.DOWN or gamepad.DOWN
  then input_y -= speed end
  if keyboard.LEFT or gamepad.LEFT
  then input_x -= speed end
  if keyboard.RIGHT or gamepad.RIGHT
  then input_x += speed end
  
end

update = function ()

  screen.clear ()
  screen.drawSprite ( "icon", playerX, playerY )
  hs_walkControl_A ( playerX, playerY, 2 )

end

I think your problem is that you're declaring the function outside of the init() function. I'm not entirely sure, but it would be worth a try.

@dozer8383 I don’t think so; Platformer Basics does something similar ( https://microstudio.dev/projects/platformerbasics/code/ ) and works with no problem.

@Trondei space out your code it's suffocated it might work once it can breathe like this

hs_walkControl_A = function(input_x, input_y, speed = 1)

if keyboard.UP or gamepad.UP then input_y += speed end

if keyboard.DOWN or gamepad.DOWN then input_y -= speed end

if keyboard.LEFT or gamepad.LEFT then input_x -= speed end

if keyboard.RIGHT or gamepad.RIGHT then input_x += speed end

end

update = function()

screen.clear() screen.drawSprite( "icon", playerX, playerY ) hs_walkControl_A( playerX, playerY, 2 )

end

The issue is that you're updating input_x and input_y in the function but not returning those values to update the player position. Here I've created playerX/Y global variables which are updated directly by the function. Because they're global you don't need to pass them to your function or return values...

playerX = 0
playerY = 0

hs_walkControl_A = function (s)
  
  if keyboard.UP or gamepad.UP then playerY += s end
  if keyboard.DOWN or gamepad.DOWN then playerY -= s end
  if keyboard.LEFT or gamepad.LEFT then playerX -= s end
  if keyboard.RIGHT or gamepad.RIGHT then playerX += s end
  
end

update = function()

  screen.clear ()
  screen.drawSprite ( "icon", playerX, playerY )
  // call input function with whatever speed value...
  s = 1
  hs_walkControl_A(s)

end