Mouse.X and Touch.X

Hello,

I have an ambition to move the object to my mouse position Mouse.Y every tick so it effectively moves up and down with mouse movements.

I also want to repeat this for touch.Y.

However I can't think of way to disable mouse if on ipad etc.

I can't use the behaviour of the touch object as mouse because no clicking is involved. Just movement.

Can anyone think of a smart way to do this?

Cheers!

Why do you need to disable mouse on ipad? Since the ipad doesn't have mouse input, those actions will be effectively disabled and not run.

No, for some reason Mouse.X & Y causes issues on the ipad. I fixed it with the below:

(Touch) Is In Touch >> Set Y to touch.Y

(System) If mouseY != mouse.Y >> Set Y to mouse.Y

                                 Set mouseY to mouse.Y

This means that every tick, the touch won't be interfered with any computation of a mouse co-ordinate of 0. It seems a null mouse co-ordinate is interpreted as 0.

You could also invert Is On Mobile Device and add it as a condition to your click event.

Is On Mobile Device shouldn't really be used for this since laptops are also touch enabled nowadays.

There are no click events either :)

In the touch object properties you can set 'Use mouse input' to yes. Then it will automatically work for both touch and mouse.

thehen

Unfortunately, that's only when clicking is involed. You have to click and drag to emulate a touch swipe. In terms of just moving the x/y position without a click is missing.

aceofpack Ah of course, I see what you mean. You won't be able to set a variable on mouse move either as some touch devices move the cursor on touch. An interesting dilemma.

See touch controls and a trick to detect input method. I think your best bet is to make a title screen, and to set the control method depending on whether the user touched or clicked the title screen.

It's cool, thanks for the help guys - I've solved this with:

(Touch) Is In Touch >> Set Y to touch.Y

(System) If mouseY != mouse.Y >> Set Y to mouse.Y

                                 Set mouseY to mouse.Y

Where mouseY is a global variable.