A simple breakout game prob

hello peps
i am writing a simple breakout prog where there is a row of bricks at the top of the page and there is a bat at the bottom and a ball wizzing aroud the screen i can't quite get the code right dor when the ball is hitting the bat. when it hits the bat it bounces off but when it comes down the page the ball bounces off the same level of the top of the bat reguardless of the bat being there

If shpBall.Top + shpBall.Height > shpBat.Top Then '_
'And shpBall.Top + shpBall.Height < shpBat.Left _
'And shpBall.Top + shpBall.Height > shpBat.Left + shpBat.Width Then
yDirection = -1
End If:confused:

this is close but not quite right any help much appriciated

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You need to check if the ball is inside the bats x-range. somthing like this..

In this example my screen look something like this.

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so the y axis is inverted!

if ball.y + intmove >= screenheight - bar.height then
if (ball.x >= bat.x) and (ball.x + width <= bat.x + bat.width) then
'The entire ball is within the bats range
elseif (ball.x >= bat.x) and (ball.x <= bat.x + width) then
'The left side of the ball is within the bats range
elseif (ball.x + width >= bat.x) and (ball.x + width <= bat.x + width) then
'The right side of the ball is within the bats range
else
'the ball is NOT within the bats range
end if
else
'The ball is NOT going to collide with the bat. Keep moving
end if

Yeah this was on the right lines i have sorted it out using this layout thanks a lot

cheers buccanner