Monitor mouse clicks while moving object with mous

[rogiedodgie32]

Hello,

I am trying to move a bitmap with the mouse. This works fine. But when i try to monitor the left mouse button (and do something when it is clicked), this does not work.

It seems that if I am moving a bitmap on the screen, I cannot monitor whether any of the mouse events (like clicks occur). Is this true? Has anyone found a workaround for this?

-Roger

[DavidN]

This is a quirk of TGF2 that gets a lot of people - when you use the mouse movement, the mouse click events aren't triggered because the mouse buttons are reassigned to the fire buttons for the player controlling the mouse.

You can either check for "Player 1 presses Fire 1" for a left click instead, or use the event:

-> Always
+ Set X position of object to XMouse
+ Set Y position of object to YMouse

to make the object follow the mouse cursor without using the Mouse movement.

[rogiedodgie32]

Dear DavidN,

I like the first option best (otherwise I guess the cursor would be visible.)

But I can't seem to figure out where to do this. When i right click on player 1 under events, i get the options:
Joystick
Compare to player's score
Comnpare to players number of lives
When number of lives reaches 0

None of these seems to be right,

Roger

[rogiedodgie32]

Ok, I got it.

Click on Joystick > Read Joystick State

In the window, make sure that "Fire Button 1" (for left mouse) is selected.

Left mouse click can then be used to trigger an event!

Thanks,

Roger

[DavidN]

You're welcome And welcome to the forums!

[LB]

Also remember that there is an even to hide the windows mouse pointer.