Preferred touch object type ?

Hi,

I'm currently making a game with a lot of clicking (or hopefully touching on a mobile). I am currently using sprite objects that, when touched, will trigger certain events. However I am having trouble disabling sprites. I see that you are able to disable buttons. What I would like to know is if I go ahead and make it for mobile would clicking a button be the same as touching a sprite object on a touchscreen? I don't want to go through the entire game using buttons only to find out they can't be touched, only clicked in a windows game.

Thanks!

Actually I have just realised that buttons don't work while invisible so they're no good anyway. Any tips on how to disable the touching of sprite objects to avoid spam ?

If you're planning to export with CocoonJS (and Intel XDK too, I believe), the button object isn't supported, so you'll have to use sprites anyway.

When you say spam, do you mean click-spamming? To prevent this, give each sprite a timer that is activated upon each click, and only allow clicks once that timer has expired: use the Compare two values condition in the On touched object event, and check if the expression Sprite.Timer.CurrentTime("AntiSpam") is equal to 0.

Thanks for the help! Also, just to confirm, the touch action on a sprite object will suffice to allow tapping on a mobile app?

Yup.

Also, just in case you hadn't noticed, the touch object can emulate the mouse object as well (it's enabled by default) - useful for testing mobile apps on desktop.

Cool. Yep I wasn't thinking clearly, the way I've done it is On Touch,When Int=0, Set Int to 1, Do Event, Set Int to 0. Thanks for the help!

To avoid them being clicked whilst not visible you can move them out of view or destroy & recreate