Dragging multiple items. ANYONE!?

swiftskater1

I need to drag multiple items. But it is the same actor. I have it follow the mouse position. And when i have more then one it controls all of them. I want it to be seperate drags

firemaplegames

make sure you are using the Mouse is INSIDE condition as well...

i.e:

Rule
When MOUSE is DOWN
When MOUSE is INSIDE
Change Attribute: self.dragging to TRUE
Otherwise
Change Attribute: self.dragging to FALSE

Rule
When self.dragging is TRUE
Constrain Attribute self.PositionX to MouseX
Constrain Attribute self.PositionY to MouseY

swiftskater1

Okay. But now when two are pressed at the same time they dont move right.

firemaplegames

Oh, you're using multiTouch?

Try changing MOUSE to TOUCH and see if that works...

swiftskater1

Alright one sec.

firemaplegames

and instead of MouseX, it will need to be Touch1X and Touch2X etc...

It will start to get tricky, you will need to keep track of touch counts as well...

I haven't done any multitouch stuff yet, so I'm not the best one to answer this...

swiftskater1

max(min( game.Mouse.Position.Y ,480),0). Thats part of my constrain attribute. How would i put that with touch?

firemaplegames

in the expression editor, where you wrote that formula, you have access to TOUCH1 under Devices...

swiftskater1

So instead of game.Mouse.Position.Y. Use game.touches.1?

firemaplegames

yes, try that.

swiftskater1

No dice.. Can you just help me make a new actor? With a drag motion? But not constrained to the mouse?

firemaplegames

I'm not sure I understand? You want to drag an Actor, but NOT have it constrained to the user's Mouse(or Touch)?

I have to go out for a bit, I'll be back online later... I'll try to help you out the best I can.

swiftskater1

Okay. Thanks