Screen buttons on iphone to control movement and spawning

gavthelion

Hi all : ) GS is great but I think I'm going backwards on the game control side of things.

I have two buttons on my iphone screen I want button 1 to control left and right movement of my space ship and button 2 to file a missle. All I end up doing is either moving and shooting at the same time or nothing happens.

so here's what I am doing thus far...

button 1 actor - All/any, postion inside, button pressed -
(on space ship actor) move left or right etc.

button 2 actor - All/any position inside, button is down -
(on space ship actor) spawn missle.

trouble is both buttons make space ship move and fire.

I know I'm suppoed to use the + attributes to add Button and button pressed etc. but I dont understand to use Boolean of interger or real for button/button pressed?? to be honest I really am confused on want to use when have multi button presses on iphone screen.

If any one at all can help with this that would be super. : )

CodeMonkey

With multitouch you really only need the touch(pressed) condition.

Though how do you have one button control left and right?

Download this project and you should be able to see what I mean.
http://gamesalad.com/game/play/23210

gavthelion

Thanks for replying CodeMonkey,

I didn't explain my self properly.

(The link takes me to the game but it doesn't run, I get a black screen with 4/5 white squares).

I do not intend using multi touch just yet!

I have two on screen buttons/actors

one to control direction, one to control firing.

The movement button/actor was going move my space ship in 3 positions on a loop toward the left (If not I was going to create an extra button/actor for right movement).

The other button/actor just to shoot. If yourself/other GS chefs can explain in detail how to set this up this would save me a lot of time.

Thanks again. : )

gavthelion

GS,

Hello gamesalad chefs - if any one can explain how to set this up in detail please?

2 buttons on screen, 1 button to move spaceship left, 1 button to fire from spaceship.

Thanks : )

CodeMonkey

If you have only one button on the screen, does it work on its own?

If they both work as they are intended individually, what commonality between them causes them to not work?