On screen buttons, continuously move problem

evilz29

Hello, I want my game to have on screen buttons for movement on the iphone.

I am basically trying to recreate this: http://gamesalad.com/game/play/23210

instead of moving, the actor rotates clock wise or counter clock wise instead.

I seem to be following that game template exactly, but what happens is when i click the Left on screen arrow, it continuously rotates in one direction (instead only moving when holding the button down)

and when I hit the other on screen directional arrow, it stops its movement but it doesn't change directions.

What I have going on:
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2 boolean attribute created, rotateleft and rotateright

On left arrow actor

Actor receives event - touch - is pressed
Change attribute: game.rotateleft to true
Change attribute: game rotateright to false

On right arrow actor

Actor receives event - touch - is pressed
Change attribute: game.rotateleft to false
Change attribute: game rotateright to true

On Spaceship

Attribute - game.rotateleft is true
Rotate counter clockwise
Speed: 90

Attribute - game.rotateright is true
Rotate clockwise
Speed: 90

Any help is greatly appreciated

Thanks!

scitunes

What I do is have one boolean game attribute for each button.

Then in each button I have a simple rule - when touch is pressed change attribute button to true otherwise change attribute button to false.

Then in the player (ship) have a rule that says when button is true, accelerate/rotate/etc.

That way when you let go of the button it will stop doing all of the things in the rule because of the otherwise section in the button actor.