Dragging actor

Dooki

Hey all,

Well I'm trying to create a actor I can drag. Looking at Joe's tutorial this is what I have and it's not working. What am I missing? Thanks!

First I created attribute (boolean) "dragging."

Rule: Dragging
All when mouse is down
----Rule
------All when mouse is down
------Attribute: self.dragging is false
----Change attribute
------self.dragging To:true

Rule
All when mouse is down
Attribute: self.dragging is true
----Change attribute
------self.dragging To false.

Nothing happens. I cannot drag or move my actor.

Thanks,
Dooki

firemaplegames

In the draggable actor:

Create an attribute (boolean) called dragging.

Then two Rules, like this:

Rule
When Touch is Pressed
-----Change Attribute: self.dragging To: true
OTHERWISE
-----Change Attribute: self.dragging To: false

Rule
When self.dragging = true
-----Constrain Attribute: self.Position.X To: Mouse.Position.X
-----Constrain Attribute: self.Position.Y To: Mouse.Position.Y

Jaxter

Great, it helped for me too. BUt is possible to rotate actor image to that position where i am dragging actor? (i mean in any angle )

Dooki

Hey Joe, worked like a champ! Grazie!

-Dooki

peachpellen

Sorry to be noobish here, but will mouse position settings work on an iPhone as touch settings?

Thanks ^-^;

Snippy

sorry to bump this, but the last question concerning the "touch" was not answered and I cannot find this information anywhere else!

So again, will this work with the touch settings? I cannot reproduce the dragging with touch settings (preview).. but will it work on iDevices?

Thanks

expired_012

Yea, im pretty sure it will work with touch settings on devices

firemaplegames

Yes. And Touch works on the Mac as well.

However, Mouse will only act as one Touch on a device - not multitouch.

Which can be handy if you don't want to allow multitouch in a certain situation.

Snippy

Thanks..

I've ran into the following problem:

I'd like to be able to touch drag a rectangle, but what happens is that it centers the actor where I have clicked (touched). Is this only happening in the gamesalad preview or on the iphone too? (bad thing I cannot test right now on an iphone)

What I need is a touchable drag&drop surface that is not jumping to the center!

Thank you,
Glenn

firemaplegames

You need to add in a "click offset" to the coordinates. This us simply the distance from the click to the center of the actor. I have this in my throwing/flicking demo on my wall that you can dig through.

Snippy

firemaplegames said:
You need to add in a "click offset" to the coordinates. This us simply the distance from the click to the center of the actor. I have this in my throwing/flicking demo on my wall that you can dig through.

Thank you, this has helped me

AppsRacK

sorry to bump an old thread but i just want to say thanks to FMG for mentioning the use of Mouse key. I've been up all night trying to figure out how to control and prevent multi-touch and it finally works. Anyway this may help others on their problem as well. Thanks again.