Mouse Events being ignored

[mikeh]

Hello

I made a picture of a start button, and set it up so when the mouse moves over it, theres a mouse over animation of the button and when you click on it the game proceeds to next frame.

However when I then made another object be mouse controlled, it seems that other than movement, mouse click events are being ignored. I have the prgoram look for a collision between the pointer object and the start button but when I tell it to detect a mouse click nothing happens.

[Ravenius]

Yes, the mouse object dislikes any other button clicks. You should, instead of using the mouse object, always set your player's position to Mouse X and mouse Y. That will result in the same thing, and the buttons work too.

[Joshtek]

When an object is assigned the mouse-controlled movement, mouse clicks are not interpreted as Keyboard/Mouse Click events. Instead they are considered Player Object Fire 1 & 2 events so you have to use those instead.

[mikeh]

I appreciate the responses. However due to the nature of the game I dont even use Player One object so not even sure how to go about what you mentioned. I looked around but cant even seem to find how to make Fire 1 and 2 as events and how to associate that with the on screen button. Could you post a short app that has this functionality? Or go into a little more step by step detail?

[Jaffob]

Fire 1 and Fire 2 are under Player > Joystick > Read Joystick State. Remove any selected directions and check the nessacary boxes.

The mouse object dislikes any other button clicks.

I see why. The actual cursor is pinned to the center of the screen while any mouse-controlled movement is in use.

[mikeh]

Thank you very much that did the trick!