Quick way to test the difference between 2 values

Is there an easy way to just test the difference between 2 values? I'm making my own directional animation events which should say something like:

If (Sprite.X < Destination.X)

and (difference (Sprite.Y,Destination.Y) < difference (Sprite.X,Destination.X))

Set animation "WalkRight"

If (Sprite.Y < Destination.Y)

and (difference (Sprite.Y,Destination.Y) > difference (Sprite.X,Destination.X))

Set animation "WalkDown"

... and so on for all the other directions. I know I can do it manually by subtracting one value from another, but all the Cartesian positive/negative stuff's twisting my head a bit Is there an easier way to do what I'm trying to do?

You can use abs() to get rid of the sign,

https://www.scirra.com/manual/126/system-expressions

Nice - that works, but I still seem to need 8 events rather than 4. Eg for "WalkRight", I need to test twice - one for when Sprite.Y > Destination.Y, and one for when Sprite.Y < Destination.Y, as it changes the order of the subtractions. Might be my crappy logic though! Is there a way to do it in 4 nice neat events?

You can have 2 events with 2 subevents each. Events will calculate the difference (first will do it for X, second for Y) and subevents will look for relative position.

That's a lot neater, but still not sure I've got it. Here's the problem I'm having:

The Up and Left directions work fine all the time, Down and Right only work sometimes. Pretty sure know why it isn't working - half the time the wrong absolute value is being subtracted, it should always be the smaller one subtracted from the greater one. I just can't figure out a (simple) way to do it.

If I could just replace the values in those abs events with with "difference (EnemyZombie.X,EnemyZombieDetector.X)" I'm pretty sure it'd work fine.

No, you abs(EnemyZombie.X-EnemyZombieDetector.X) ...

BOOM. I'm an idiot thanks!

You could use conditionals and just set the animation based on those.

set animation to:

x>n ?thisanimation :thatanimation

Not sure how you would chain multiple conditionals together.

A nice suggestion for C3 would be easier ways to set stuff like that up.

I realize the canned answer is just use conditions and subevents, but even those are somewhat broken when you want to use else, and or together.

Ashley