Hello, I am working on my first app called "touch the monkey" All it is a magic eight ball with a monkey. However i took out the shake event of the eight ball and put in my own touch event for the monkey. So you ask an important question, touch the monkey, and a yes, no, or maybe will pop up on screen. So I cant get it to work

local w = display.contentWidth

local h = display.contentHeight

monkey = display.newImage("monkey.png")

monkey.x = w/2

monkey.y = h/2

local textfield = display.newText("",w/2-5, h/2 + 40, nil, 24)

local options = {"Yes", "No", "Maybe"}

local function touchmonkey (e)

if ("e.phase"== ended) then

textfield.text = options[math.random(1,3)]

end

end

monkey:addEventListener("touch", touchmonkey)

Hey there;

Change
if ("e.phase"== ended) then
to
if (e.phase == "ended") then

Also, please read the forum rules - when you don't post code in < lua > tags it's a real pain to read.

Peach :)

Thanks Peach, what would be a good way to make the text disappear after about 5 seconds?

you could do it one of the following ways :

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transition.to(myText, {alpha = 0, delay = 500})
 
--or
 
local function hideText(text, iTime)
    local function hideIt()
        text.alpha = 0
    end
 
    local tmr = timer.performWithDelay(iTime, hideIt)
end
 
--When you want to hide the text call this
hideText(myText, 500) 
--The text will hide after the time you specify