Left Mouse click with additional condition problem

[maVado]

I have a very strange problem and I try to explain in detail what I am curious about.

I have Two conditions followed by a lot of events:

User Clicks with Left Mouse Button on Active Picture (Inventory)
+ Groupitemvalue ( " INI ", "Cursor", "ItemID") = 0

User Clicks with Left Mouse Button on Active Picture (Inventory)
+ Groupitemvalue ( " INI ", "Cursor", "ItemID") > 0

I have 12 Active Pictures on my Frame which indicates 12 Inventory Slots, I spread a Value through them on Start of Frame, thats works fine.

I have a loop that looks up an Ini File 12 times and reads the item from the Ini:

[Cursor]
ItemID=0
[1]
ItemID=4
[2]
ItemID=5
[3]
ItemID=1

etc.

That works fine.

now what I want to do with both conditions is that I want to move Items from one slot to another. Therefore I put up a Cursor Group into the INI file.

Now on

User Clicks with Left Mouse Button on Active Picture (Inventory)
+ Groupitemvalue ( " INI ", "Cursor", "ItemID") = 0

It reads the ItemID from the clicked Active Picture and writes it to the Cursor Item in the Ini. After that It puts in a 0 into the current ItemID clicked.

User Clicks with Left Mouse Button on Active Picture (Inventory)
+ Groupitemvalue ( " INI ", "Cursor", "ItemID") > 0

Does the Way around. It reads from Cursor and writes to the clicked Field.

I hope you could follow me until here.

Now if I change:

User Clicks with Left Mouse Button on Active Picture (Inventory)
+ Groupitemvalue ( " INI ", "Cursor", "ItemID") > 0

to be a RIGHT ! click it works, with both conditions to LEFT click it does not work.

and I wonder why?

I mean "Groupitemvalue ( " INI ", "Cursor", "ItemID") > 0" or "Groupitemvalue ( " INI ", "Cursor", "ItemID") = 0" there is a difference.

I simply don't understand why

[netninja]

I'm pretty sure I know what you're talking about, and if so, it's a problem that I often run into.

Basically what I think you're saying is going on is this: If you click on the active picture it checks those two events and then afterwards it changes the value. The problem is that the events are run so close together that it does one event straight after the other.

Let's simplify this example... If you had an active object, and you had two events:

On left click on active
+ Counter = 0
Then set counter to 2

On left click on active
+ Counter = 2
Then set counter to 4

Now what would happen is that when you run the program and click the active, the counter would be set to 4. That is because of the event order, the first event is true, and the counter is set to 2. But then the next event is also true and counter is set to 4.

Here is my work around; you introduce another countdown timer in the form of an alterable value, I'll call it Timer for simplicity. Now look at these events:

On left click on active
+ Counter = 0
+ Active.Timer = 0
Then set counter to 2 & set Active.Timer to 3

On left click on active
+ Counter = 2
+ Active.Timer = 0
Then set counter to 4 & set Active.Timer to 3

Active.Timer > 0
Then Active.Timer = Active.Timer - 1

Now if you run it again, you will have to click the counter twice in order for it to go to 4. If you used the condition "Repeat while left mouse button is pressed." Then it would tick through very fast, but it would still be visible. You can set the alterable value to 1 and it still works, but I like having the security of another 2 frames.

So just add timers to the actives. I hope this fixes it.

[maVado]

Yes you are right, you have to check from another location to make this work.

In my Case I added a counter and used another objects flag to be on and off if the value of te counter is 1 or 0.

Also I added them in front of the click condition to make it work:

Internal flag 0 is off
User Clicks with Left Mouse Button on Active Picture (Inventory)
+ Groupitemvalue ( " INI ", "Cursor", "ItemID") = 0

Internal flag 0 is on
User Clicks with Left Mouse Button on Active Picture (Inventory)
+ Groupitemvalue ( " INI ", "Cursor", "ItemID") > 0

Thanks.

[netninja]

I'm glad that you fixed it. Just keep in mind however that a flag might not always work, because if you have

Mouse button down on object
+ Flag 0 is off:
Set flag 0 on

Mouse button down on object
+ Flag 0 is on:
Set flag 0 off

Then you have the same problem. It works in your case though because of the Left Mouse Button Click. Be sure to show us your project when you're finished

[maVado]

Right

Just added

TempTimer = 1
--> Set flag 0 off

TempTimer = 2
--> Set flag 0 on

And added TempTimer in my previous Conditions

Works like a charm


btw.

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