Initial touch returning incorrect position value

[mobichan]

I have found that if I set a var (InitialTouch) to XTouch (Touch 0) it is returning incorrect values at first. I am doing this with the mouse pointer in the PC debugger. My events look like:

+A new touch has occurred, number 0
- Set InitialTouch to XTouch(0)

If I look in the debugger and see what values are printing out for the InitialTouch var, they tend to not be accurate. For example, I click the mouse pointer near the edge of my 480 wide window and it returns -1. A second click makes it return a more correct value like 470. This is making it nearly impossible to test any of my custom layer scrolling code as the values returned are incorrect.

Can anyone confirm this?

PS. I am using the Unicode runtime.

[Francois]

This used to be a very old bug in the multiple touch object. It is corrected, I just tried it. I do not understand why you have an old version of the object...

[mobichan]

Francois: I want to correct this problem. What is my best solution? Should I completely unistall/reinstall MMF and all modules? And is there a way to preserve the extensions so I don't need to reinstall them all?

I work on a dual monitor setup on Windows 7. Do you think that might cause any issues?

[Francois]

Here is the object : www.clickteam.com/francois/MultipleTouch.mfx

[mobichan]

I just noticed it needs to go in 2 places. /Extensions and /Data/runtime folders. Is that correct? I put it in both of those folders and there is no change to my problem when I run the PC debugger.

If I can make a video, I will show you the problem.

[Francois]

OK please

[AndyH]

I have noticed this too, but only in the windows runtime. Works fine on the device.

[mobichan]

Here is a video showing what I see in the PC debugger. Everytime I click in the video, the layer jumps to a new position. You can see a small blue detector at the tip of the mous cursor every time I click the mouse button.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pa2dlPDK4BY

[Francois]

You have to explain it to me, as what I see seems correct : the first time you click, the grave is moved under the mouse...
What is wrong exactly in this video?

[mobichan]

The layer should only move when you click and drag. If you only click, the layer snaps to a position relative to the mouse. This is because the layer position is returning an incorrect value for one frame.

Clicking should not move the layer until you drag. The behavior I want works on my ios device but NOT on the PC when using a mouse. That is the bug.