Control range of movement

TangoDownStudios

I have an object that the user can pick up and move with the mouse. When the object is picked up I want to make it so they can only move the object around in a 480x100 sized box located at the top of a landscape iPhone screen.

How do I constrict position.x, position.y to that box? Do I need to use min() max()?

Asymptoteell

Yes. Use min and Max with constraints. If you don't know how, I can explain more.

JohnPapiomitis

do you mean the object starts out in that box and you want to be able to touch it and move it but have it stay it the box?

Asymptoteell

Constrain x to min(maximum value, (max(self.position.x, minimum value))

Y to the same but with self.position.y.

TangoDownStudios

Asymptoteell hit it right on the head! I didn't know how the syntax for min, max worked. Still don't actually, I'm working this into my code but could someone explain how these methods are laid out?

Asymptoteell

Min chooses the smallest of the two values, max picks the largest, so min(1,6) is 1 and max(1,6) is 6.