Mouse controlled active object won't follow screen?

[rotdog]

Greetings!

I'm rather new to game development and I'm setting down the foundations for my first demo (forgive me, this is my first forum post regarding such)! Unfortunately, I've encountered a problem: The cursor/crosshairs (an active object controlled by the mouse) won't move beyond their starting position.

So far I have the player (blue box), which is controlled with the wasd keys, and the cursor (pink box), used to point/click/grapple/shoot/etc (I'm undecided). Moving the player and cursor works, but once the game starts scrolling, the cursor remains in place.

I've stretched the "Edit Movement" box over the size of the screen, but I don't know how to make it follow the screen to where it's always present.

I think this is best explained visually.

2018-07-07_20-56-33.jpg

If you'd like, you can try it yourself here:

cursor test.zip

Footnote, I had to compress the .mfw file into a .zip to upload because the uploader gave me an "invalid file" error attempting to upload the .mfw itself. Is there any way to fix this?
It also appears that I can't embed gifs!

Thanks in advance!

[aenever]

I can't open your file. It's best to save as a .mfa rather than a project file.

[rotdog]

Sorry about that! Here you go:

cursorTest.mfa

[aenever]

On the pink cursor active under its run-time properties, untick follow the frame

[rotdog]

Checked or unchecked, it still won't go beyond that point;;
mmf2u_2018-07-08_18-31-51.png

[aenever]

Oh I see what you mean, I thought the problem was that the cursor wouldn't follow the frame. Scrap my suggestion, I think the mouse object is limited by the window size, You can set up your own custom mouse system like this to get around it.

cursorTest custom Mouse.mfa

[rotdog]

Thank you!

In the event editor I see you've restricted the movement of the cursor to the boundaries of the frame, but how did you get it to move with the mouse?

[aenever]

Line 7 sets the pink cursor to the x of the mouse position and to the y of the mouse position.