Attach sword to a pinned chain of sprites

I'm trying to get it so that when I press and move on my joystick, a sword and arms will pop out, but the sword is restricted to the arms length. And the point of the sword mimics what the thumb is drawing on the joystick, so it's kind of like being pulled by the tip of the sword.

It starts at Event 83 and goes to 88. Any help is greatly appreciated <img src="smileys/smiley17.gif" border="0" align="middle" /> <img src="smileys/smiley17.gif" border="0" align="middle" />

dropbox.com/s/uxdwoc4vh0af7bi/25-MAY-13%20-%20Changed%20to%20virtual%20joystick.capx

Let me better explain...

The right side of the screen will be where the joystick/mousepad is. While the player uses the mousepad on the right, the end point of the forearm (pretty much the wrist) I need it to mimic what the thumb is doing on the right, but it will be placed on the player. If the thumb extends past the reaching point of what the arm allows, i don't want it to break the arm, I want it to still follow the finger, but at an offset pretty much. My joystick is kinda setup to allow this already.

I think you just want to set the arm angle to the thumbstick angle. Though I also had to rotate the arm and sword 90 degrees clockwise so that they are facing right (towards 0 degrees).

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/8367729/construct/example/25-MAY-13%2520-%2520Changed%2520to%2520virtual%2520joystick_edit.capx

I forgot to mention I plan on having 2 arms to simulate a forearm and arm, and possibly wrist, so i'll need to be able to tug and pull on it, and when I push it in, the arms fold , but when I pull it back out, the arms unfold

I have an idea....   So i made a sprite called "MotionDot" This dot is spawned on my VirtualControls layer, and is pinned to my joystick's thumbstick. This way, when the thumbstick moves, the MotionDot mimics it. Then I attached my sword to the dot. It works nearly exactly how I want it, but how do I get the sword movement area to move with the player? It will spawn on the player, but then the sword movement will stay in place instead of following nthe player. It's so close!

(Events 105 - 107) click and drag on the online joystick

dropbox.com/s/l3t7uxsnhbn8uwp/27-MAY-13%20-%20created%20Flying%20Tool.capx

And how do i minimize how much the red dot moves in compared to the ThumbStick? So I don't make his arm come too far off his body

Check it out: joystickArmControl.capx

Did you eveeerr knoooow that you're my heeeerooooo

Seriously, love you, this is exactly what I wanted! And your sword is way cooler than mine lol.

Is there any performance difference do you know from using my joystick compared to your joystick? I gotta save all the I can get since I want to put this on mobile.   And do you care if I create my joystick like yours?

Hey ramones, thanks again for your help, I sent you a PM with a possible offer too.