Accelerometer based movement

Question

Now woking on game that uses accelerometer to move player sprite left and right. I used this tutorial: COCOS2D_ACCELEROMETER_MOVEMENT This works only sometime….some time not move..How can I resolve this problem? Here is my sample: See this Sample Thanks for reading this…what's wrong with my code ? Is there any other way?

Here is my code:

#define kHeroMovementAction 1
#define kPlayerSpeed 500
- (void) accelerometer:(UIAccelerometer *)accelerometer didAccelerate:(UIAcceleration *)acceleration {

    // use the running scene to grab the appropriate game layer by it's tag

    // grab the player sprite from that layer using it's tag
    CCSprite *playerSprite = mPlayer;
    float destX, destY;
    BOOL shouldMove = NO;

    float currentX = playerSprite.position.x;
    float currentY = playerSprite.position.y;

    if(acceleration.x > 0.25) {  // tilting the device upwards
        destX = currentX - (acceleration.y * kPlayerSpeed);
        destY = currentY + (acceleration.x * kPlayerSpeed);
        shouldMove = YES;
    } else if (acceleration.x < -0.25) {  // tilting the device downwards
        destX = currentX - (acceleration.y * kPlayerSpeed);
        destY = currentY + (acceleration.x * kPlayerSpeed);
        shouldMove = YES;
    } else 

        if(acceleration.y < -0.25) {  // tilting the device to the right
        destX = currentX - (acceleration.y * kPlayerSpeed);
        destY = currentY + (acceleration.x * kPlayerSpeed);
        shouldMove = YES;
    } else if (acceleration.y > 0.25) {  // tilting the device to the left
        destX = currentX - (acceleration.y * kPlayerSpeed);
        destY = currentY + (acceleration.x * kPlayerSpeed);
        shouldMove = YES;
    } else {
        destX = currentX;
        destY = currentY;
    }

    if(shouldMove) 
    {
        CGSize wins = [[CCDirector sharedDirector] winSize];
        // ensure we aren't moving out of bounds     
        if(destX < 30 || destX > wins.width - 30 || destY < 30 || destY > wins.height - 100) {
            // do nothing
        } else {
            CCAction *action = [CCMoveTo actionWithDuration:0.5f position: CGPointMake(destX, playerSprite.position.y)];
            [playerSprite stopActionByTag:kHeroMovementAction];
            [action setTag:kHeroMovementAction];
            [playerSprite runAction:action];
        }
    } else {
        // should stop
        [playerSprite stopActionByTag:kHeroMovementAction];
    }

}

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Answer 1

You should look at Ray Wenderlich's scrolling tutorial here

His accelerometer part is near the bottom of the page.