Simple Question

[Keith]

If I have two overlapping Actives and the user clicks on an area where both exist, how do I capture the event only for the topmost Active?

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[Yos]

I had a similar situation, just that I wanted the back active...
I assigned a variable to every active and kept track of its status along the game - front or back.
When clicked, I initiated action only if the status of the active object was 'Back', in your case 'Front'.

[ProdigyX]

"Only one event per loop action"

will choose the top most

[Keith]

Only one action when event loops seems to select neither the topmost or the bottommost when I try this; it's almost random.

[Konidias]

When the player clicks over the objects, run a fastloop and spread value through the objects, or use ForEach to cycle through the objects. Also set a global variable to 0 before the loop starts.

In the loop, compare the global variable to the Y position of the object. If the global variable is less than the Y position, set the global variable to the Y position.

After the loop finishes, you now have the Y position for the bottom most object.

Then you have another click condition that is your actual condition (underneath the loop):

Player left clicks mouse
+Mouse over objects
+object y pos = global variable, then that is your top most object

Of course, this only works if the objects are topmost toward the bottom and farthest toward the top. Otherwise you'll need to set up a layer variable for the objects to be checked against.

[AyreGuitar]

Keith - I needed something similar for my latest game, so here's an example (requires Layer Object and ForEach)
Whilst this uses groups it can easily be modified for a single Active.
Hope it helps.

[nivram]

Select Obj ext maybe?

Marv