Snopel

Create Event

player_Direction= 0 //0 for left and 1 for right

Step Event

if (keyboard_check(ord("A"))) {

         Movement Code //whatever you may be using
         sprite_index="left walking animation";
         player_Direction=0;

         } else if (keyboard_check(ord("D"))) {

         Movement Code //whatever you may be using
         sprite_index="right walking animation";
         player_Direction=1;

         } else if (keyboard_check(ord("W"))) {

         Jump Code //whatever you may be using

         If player_Direction=0 {
                sprite_index="left jumping animation"
         } else if player_Direction=1 {
                sprite_index="right jumping animation";
         }

         } else {

         If player_Direction=0 {
                sprite_index="left Standing animation"
         } else if player_Direction=1 {
                sprite_index="right standing animation"

         }
}

Sorry if this is either wrong or looks odd as I'm doing it both off memory and on my iPod so formatting might be wrong

thanks, Still if anyone wants to know how to do something else I will make a tutorial for it.

Your welcome, I'm glad to see that people find my tutorials useful  

I used your tutorial as the basis to create my game for my thesis. Thanks very much it was very helpful and exactly what I wanted. You can view it at http://www.yoyogames.com/games/171562

Thanks

I'm happy to be of help and your game looks great!
One thing though when you hit the load button and type in a wrong username the load button moves to the left.

!!Update!!

-Added an rts extension