Problem with touch released

ChillBox

hi all,
I have a problem with this rule.
http://img846.imageshack.us/img846/9785/screenshot20130107at320.png

if touch released but the attribute "coins" is less then 1000 so nothing it's happening,
but when the attribute "coins" is more then 1000 the rule is happening without touch released.
because i touche released earlier. (It's like the "release" were saved.)
I want that when touch is released and its more then 1000 coins that the rule will happen.

Sorry if my English was shaky.

gyroscope

Hi @talo it's probably best to nest a rule within a touch rule only if you're going to use the Otherwise section; or if there are more rules to nest; so in this case, there's no need to: try putting the two conditions together in the same rule:

When touch is released and game.coin => 1000
Play Sound
Change Image
Timer

Another way: If you did want to keep the rules nested, I think making the first Rule as When touch is pressed would work OK...

ChillBox

But i need that to be touch is released.
there is another way?

gyroscope

Hi, did you try it with the two conditions in the same Rule?:

When touch is released and game.coin => 1000
Play Sound
Change Image
Timer

LumpApps

Talo if i understand you well your problem is that when the coins reach 1000 the action is triggered when the release is triggered earlier in the scenes time.
While I too had difficulties understanding this is the right behavior. When an actor is released it stays released.
The workaround for you would be
Add a real attribute and name it Releasetime
Then a rule:
When actor is touched change attribute Releasetime to self.time

Then make a rule:
(All)
When actor is released
When self.time is < Releasetime + 0.2
When coins >= 1000
Do something

I am doing this from memory so I hope the above is correct.

ashtmj

in my experience most times you have a button you need a extra rule in your button actor

Boolean called "Pressed"

rule 1

when touch is pressed
change self.attribute "Pressed" to true

Rule 2
conditions :

*if touch is released
* self.attribute Pressed is true
*coins => then 1000

Then add a timer
after 0 secs (run to completion checked)

what ever you want to happen followed by
change self.attribute "Pressed" to false

its good to have this within a timer because, lets say this is your action:

change game.coins to games.coin-1000

change self.attribute "Pressed" to false

if the "coins" go below 1000 (the needed amount within the rules conditions)
it won't set pressed to false without the timer because one of the conditions will no longer be true.

LumpApps

That is correct. I believe i did the same thing but a little different (using a custom timer).
Both ways should work. I try to avoid timers because they consume a lot of processing speed.

ChillBox

Thank you very much! @ashtmj
and all of you guys!

The_Gamesalad_Guru

Yes, touch is released works like turning a switch on permanently as touch is pressed is momentary.

AdvenireSoftware

Thanks for the posts. I just ran into this issue. I thought it might have been a bug. Thanks for the work around. I'm going to try them in my current game.