design help

[Evan Pierce]

hey, i already posted about this in the game development forum but it doesnt seem like anyone reads that part of the forum.

but basicly what im trying to do is make it so when i click a sprite it goes into a state of "activated" and while in this state if the user gets certaint amount of pixels away it will throw sprite off in that direction.

the problem is that when i run my game and click the sprite it freezes my mouse(sprite) inside the sprite and does nothing. heres my code...

//inside main class
//on collision between mouse sprite and other sprite

public void collided(Sprite s1,Sprite s2){

M s3 = (M) s2;

double sX = s1.getX();
double sY = s1.getX();
double s2X = s2.getX();
double s2Y = s2.getX();
double s3X = s2X - 17.5;
double s3Y = s2Y - 17.5;
double s4X = sX - 5.5;
double s4Y = sY - 5.5;

if( Math.pow(s4X - s3X,2)+Math.pow(s4Y - s3Y,2) < Math.pow(11 + 35,2)) {
ZenGame.clickable = true;
ZenGame.clickIt(s3);
}
if(s3.activated){
System.out.println("activated!");
s3.activated = true;
s3.throwThis(s2X,s2Y);
}
}    

//inside the sprite class (thing i want to click)

public void throwThis(double x, double y){
while(activated){
if(!ZenGame.leftClick){
double mX = ZenGame.mX;
double mY = ZenGame.mY;

if(x < mX){
speedX = 1;
setSpeed(speedX,speedY);
activated = false;
}
if(x > mX){
speedX = -1;
setSpeed(speedX,speedY);
activated = false;
}
if(y < mY){
speedY = 1;
setSpeed(speedX,speedY);
activated = false;
}
if(y > mY){
speedY = -1;
setSpeed(speedX,speedY);
activated = false;
}
}
}
}    

it doesnt seem to ever reach into the if(!ZenGame.leftClick){
[ February 20, 2006: Message edited by: Evan Pierce ]

[Evan Pierce]

ok ive come to the conclusion that whats happening is that when i move my mouse away from the sprite there is no longer a collision so it cant run the if(!leftClick). does anyone have any ideas to how i might implement this to get the desired effect?