Actor Press and Release Question

ilovepixar

I'm relatively new to GameSalad but I wanted clarification on something. Let's say you create an actor and you apply the "released" attribute to the actor. I've noticed that this only works if you initially click inside the actor first and then release which I found odd. Is there any truth to this? It's messing up my game because I'm trying to spawn actors at the fingertips of anybody touching the screen and destroying those actors the moment the touches that are inside of them are 'released.' How might I go about this?

Essentially I just need actors to spawn and constrain to multiple fingertips and then destroy themselves when the fingertip is released.

BarkBarkCo

use 2 condition in your rule, or nest 2 rules. The first checks for position of mouse is inside actor, the other checks for mouse button is up.

Not being in a position to test on an iDevice, I'm not sure how that logic translates to said devices...

ilovepixar

When you mentioned that I had high hopes, but unfortunately that didn't work. I applied your rules in the actor that spawns and unfortunately is just deletes itself once you click.

BarkBarkCo

While I wouldn't be surprised if I am totally wrong on this one, can I ask a dumb question? Did you have the rule set to ANY or ALL? It would need to be ALL...

Gurus, feel free to chime in at anytime and clear this up...lol

JGary321

When touch is pressed spawn actor

In the actor use the rule

If touch is inside then...blah blah blah

Otherwise then...destroy

ilovepixar

I'm out at the moment, but I'll be sure to try this the moment I get home! Would this work for multiple touches?

ilovepixar

I still don't understand what my issue is- here is exactly what I have:

ATTRIBUTES:
Touch 1 X
Touch 1 Y
Is Pressed

Actors:

Touch 1 is my first actor and inside it says:
Constrain X position to touch 1 X attribute
Constrain Y position to touch 1 Y attribute
When ALL conditions are valid attribute "Is Pressed" is "no" then destroy this actor.

My second actor is the background actor that fills up the entire screen. Here is what is inside:

When All conditions are valid and actor recieves touch is pressed, spawn actor "Touch 1" and change attribute "Is Pressed" to "Yes"
OTHERWISE:
change attribute "Is pressed" to "No"

Then in this actor is has:
constrain attribute "Touch 1 x" to touches 1 x position
constrain attribute "Touch 1 y" to touches 1 y position

I'm stuck because the actor immediately deletes itself and I don't know what I'm doing wrong. I just want it to spawn when I press down and delete when I release. I'm probably doing something dumb, but I just can't find it and above is everything I've done.