Breakout - How can I make the pad not go through the walls?

Hi,

I'm trying to make a Breakout-type game, and followed a tutorial I found here. I've also searched for issues and solved some, but one thing remains a mystery to me: When I use the pad (by letting it follow them mouse's X-coordinates), it doesn't stop when hitting one of the walls on the side of the playing-area. Let's say the playing-area is a box in the middle of the screen, covering about a third of the screen. I want the pad to stay in there, and not go all the way over to the edge of the screen.

Thanks for any help.

this probably isn't the best solution, but if it was me I'd probably create an invisible sprite with a solid behavior at the edge of each line you don't want the pad cross, & then enable collisions so the pad just sorta bumps into the sprite

Thanks, but I can't get that to work either. I have a wall-sprite on each side, and both the pad and wall are set to solid. I've tried enabling collisions, but it's not working. I then set the pad's X-coordinates to the wall and the pad, but neither work. I'm running out of ideas here. Surely someone else has made a Breakout-style game in Construct? How did they solve this issue?

Right click on your sprite.

Select Behaviors.

Select Bound to Layout.

Press Okay.

Come back here and say thanks!

Thanks, that worked.

lol thanks