How to do regular movement?

[Outcast]

I just started to work on transferring one of my regular games to iOS, it is a simple game where you can run to the left or right and jump. I am feeling completely lost though now. I looked in the example section but I could not find a simple example on how to implement moving of the character for iOS? Like just putting a couple of arrows on the screen that you tap to move left and right? Do you need an extension for it? Can you make custom made arrows and buttons?

[DistantJ]

I prefer to actually create active objects and detect touches on them etc. but if you're using a built in movement you can't do it that way, it has to be attached to the default touch joystick. What you do is, go to your frame properties, to the iOS tab (looks like a little iPhone) set Touch mode to Multi touch, then set the Joystick Device to "Touch joystick" and enable the buttons you need with the checkboxes below. You can edit the way the joystick and buttons look in your Application properties under the iOS tab.

[Outcast]

I prefer to actually create active objects and detect touches on them etc. but if you're using a built in movement you can't do it that way, it has to be attached to the default touch joystick. What you do is, go to your frame properties, to the iOS tab (looks like a little iPhone) set Touch mode to Multi touch, then set the Joystick Device to "Touch joystick" and enable the buttons you need with the checkboxes below. You can edit the way the joystick and buttons look in your Application properties under the iOS tab.

I use the PMO object for this game. But after testing I realize that I think the controls would be much better if you could move right by just pressing anywhere on the right side of the screen and moving left by pressing anywhere on the left side. Is this possible with the PMO object?

[TechVision]

Sure that's possible. Take a look at this: http://community.clickteam.com/showthread.php?t=74139

That covers the buttons, touches and controlling the PMO.

[Outcast]

Cool thanks

[cfullerNY]

if your app doesn't require multitouch, you will be fine using only regular "left mouse button" click event (for example "repeat while left mouse held down")
if your app requires more than one touch simultaneously, you will need to use the multitouch extension and do some learning. many examples are available on these forums.

[TechVision]

if your app doesn't require multitouch, you will be fine using only regular "left mouse button" click event (for example "repeat while left mouse held down")
if your app requires more than one touch simultaneously, you will need to use the multitouch extension and do some learning. many examples are available on these forums.

If you use this method the "cursor" will still stay at the same position. So it's best to use touch objects (like in the example) with the same method for single and multiple touches in my opinion. You can of course limit the amount of touches and touch objects if they are not needed.