**Dragging the screen and dragging objects - avoiding conflict, how?**

GugsGames

A bit of a curious one, this, so bear with me.

I have a scene background which I want to be draggable in a google maps style, with the finger. I also have objects within that same scene that I want to be able to drag, independent of the background. I have managed to get both of these in, but I have a problem when I try to drag the objects as it sometimes thinks I am also trying to drag the background. It works sometimes but is very unreliable.

I need to think of some kind of rule that would say 'you can drag the background, unless you are touching the objects with your finger, in which case you cant drag the background, but you can drag the objects', as well as one that says the opposite. Any ideas?

Or is anyone aware of a template that demonstrates a game that has draggable background and draggable objects within it? I have searched but can't find one!

old_kipper

You could have an 'active' boolean, that is fired by any of the actors when selected, and precludes others from being selected until false. Then have the background selectable apart from defined areas, have you get by passing the other actors positions to game or scene attributes, and adding/subtracting the size of the actor to/form their positions to form the non selectable areas.

Or you could do a touch within to select the non background actors as a rule that overrides the background select.

just ideas..

GugsGames

Some nice ideas there. I like the active boolean option. I think I'll give that a try first and see if I can get it to work. Thanks kipper!