Need help with a touch command

[Power2r]

Hey,
I am having an issue doing a good touch command for movement using our own movement engine. Basically have this command.

Repeat while left mouse is pressed
+ Mouse pointer is over object

= Move the character.

Now that works just fine, until i press on the shoot button. Once i press on the shoot button. which is using Fusion built in touch buttons. The character stops moving. So basically the above command stops working, and i have to release the screen and press it again.

So basically i need to be able to be holding the move button and be able to press the shoot button and the character should still be able to walk. I am not using the Fusion Joystick. I am using my own movement buttons.


here is the 2 lines of code that i have. So i am pretty sure i have to correct the movement line for it to continue to accept that line while the shoot button is pressed. Anyone can give me a better way that i should do this. Thanks

here is image link if that pic is showing up to small
http://i60.photobucket.com/albums/h12/Power2r/muliTouchproblem.jpg

[iggy]

Check my replay in:

http://www.clickteam.com/epicenter/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Main=33830&Number=2464 05#Post246405

Tell me if you need more help.

[Power2r]

I am still a little lost on which commands I should be adding to help my problem.

[RhysD]

you need to replace the mouse action with a touch action via the multi-touch object.

the multi-touch object is basically like the mouse object and can read clicks (touches), but can handle several at once, something which the default mouse can't.

[Power2r]

Yes, but how does it know which object i am over. I only see commands like:
A new touch as occurred.
How do i translate that touch to a button that i have on the screen. Do i still need to use a mouse command stating that the mouse cursor is overlapping an object? If so would it have to look something like this?



(Maybe i just don't understand how the Multi Touch Object works.)

[RhysD]

I think you might need to compare the x and y of the touch and make sure it's within a boundary of the object you want it over.

So something like this (if your hotspot is centered in your object). What i'm doing is basically drawing an invisible square boundary and figuring out if the touch co-ordinates are within it while the touch is occurring.

The values below would be for a 32x32 sized object.

A new touch has occurred
+ touch x > (active x - 16)
+ touch x < (active x + 16)
+ touch y > (active y - 16)
+ touch y < (active y + 16)

- Do events

[LB]

You could also have a 1x1 object and set its X and Y to the X and Y touch and see if it overlaps the object. You could loop through and have multiple of these associated with each touch, I think...

[Power2r]

I am sorry , but I am still having trouble getting this to work. I am not seeing a command that will allow me to do :
touch x > (active x - 16)

I am only able to check for a touch number. I do not find anything that allows me to check for a touch position.

[Power2r]

Ok, so this is what I got so far


However, this command does not seem to loop. This is an actual Up Arrow, so when user is touching this arrow. The player should walk up.
So when i press on the arrow now. It basically just runs the command once. So i am getting close. Just need to figure out how to loop this touch command now.

Thanks ahead for all the help so far.

[Power2r]

Anyone?