How do I draw a line between matching adjacent objects?

Hi guys. Super new to construct 2.

Had a question on touch controls and conditions.

Right now I have a bunch of "Dot" objects Laid out on a grid.

The distance between each dot is about 160 pixels, and there are 5 different possible Dot colors (Same object, different animation frame).

When a Dot is touched, a line of the same color spawns at the Dot's position, and its width adjusts to the position of the cursor.

I want to make it so that when you drag the line to an adjacent Dot (Within 160px) of the same color, the current line stays in place and a new line starts.

I roughly followed This video: youtube.com/watch to do the line mechanic.

I have a global variable keeping track of the number of active (selected) dots.

I have two different On touched events:

One for when the first dot is selected:

And another for when more than one dot has been selected:

Under my assumption, whenever a Dot is touched, the system will pick the appropriate touch event depending on the NumActiveDots condition.

However this doesn't seem to be the case.

I managed to start the first line when clicking the first dot, but after that no other lines spawn.

Sorry if I explained things in a complicated way.

EDIT: Here's the capx: dropbox.com/s/u0ev0icxdmcvu2w/Dots.capx

So what you're saying is you copied the events in that video but it's not working? Share a screenshot of all of the relevant events, or the capx file itself.

I essentially did what the video said, but since the concept of what I'm trying to make is a bit different, I had to adjust it to fit my needs.

Here is the event sheet as it is right now:

Have you tried running your project in Debug Mode (Ctrl-F4)?

You'll be able to see what's going on - if the Line sprite gets created, which animation/frame playing and so on.

If this doesn't help, try adding debug output. This could be a text objects somewhere on your layout. Make it big, set text wrapping=Character. Use Text->Append text to print some debug information to it. For example:

MyDebug -> Append-> "ActiveDots:" & NumActiveDots

or

MyDebug -> Append-> "Line:" & Line.UID & " picked:" & Line.PickedCount

Or you can use Browser->Log action for this.

Have you tried running your project in Debug Mode (Ctrl-F4)?

You'll be able to see what's going on - if the Line sprite gets created, which animation/frame playing and so on.

If this doesn't help, try adding debug output. This could be a text objects somewhere on your layout. Make it big, set text wrapping=Character. Use Text->Append text to print some debug information to it. For example:

MyDebug -> Append-> "ActiveDots:" & NumActiveDots

or

MyDebug -> Append-> "Line:" & Line.UID & " picked:" & Line.PickedCount

Or you can use Browser->Log action for this.

Yeah, I probably should have mentioned, I added a debug statement to the second touch event, and it triggered on the first click of a Dot.

Maybe it's instantaneously registering two touches?

Could you share your capx? It would be much easier to find the problem.

Sure thing. Here it is:

dropbox.com/s/u0ev0icxdmcvu2w/Dots.capx

In your event #5 the system picks 1 dot (which is clicked). Inside this event you can't pick other dots.

If you need to pick another dot, you should do it either in a function, or add event "System->Pick all dots" and nest your events #8 and #9 inside it.

There are other errors in your game, but at least if you fix this your second line gets created.

There is also a trick if you need to pick 2 dot instances and work with them independently in one event.

Create a family and add your dot sprite to it.

This will allow you to do things like this:

On touched dot   <-this will pick one instance of dot
    Pick familyDot where <some criteria>   <-this will pick another instance of dot
    Line set width to distance(dot.x, dot.y, familyDot.x, familyDot.y)  <- draw line between two instances
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Thanks. Unfortunately I only have the free version so I can't use families.

But I will use your previous advice

Scrap my previous advice

Replace your whole event with this:

You probably don't need the array. Just set some instance variable on the dots that are already connected.

And one last thing - StartLine function requires three parameters and you only passing two.