Rotate sprite toward touch

Please see this example: dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1606950/rotate_.capx

What I would like is for the object to set its angle toward the touch, but without "jumping" (try to click on the opposite side than the arrow and you'll see what I mean).

I would like it to be smooth, there is probably an easy solution computing the initial angle of the sprite and offsetting against the touch but I really can't make it work.

Thanks for any help.

Here's an example: rotate_towards_touch.capx (r138.2)

ramones, thank you very much, I see now what I was doing wrong.

Appreciate it.

Sup — and 0plus1 !

I put together a smoother rotating version. You can control the speed of rotation using delta time (dt)

newt thought up this formula, his math is fabulous!

is in touch

set angle to anglelerp(self.angle,angle(self.x,self.y,touch.x,touch.y),1-0.5^dt)

CAPX

There's a bit of wobble as you rotate the circle but it's good.

NECROKRIEG that's actually very nice!

In the end I decided to go with a different approach.

The issue was that touching in another angle makes the object "jump" to the new angle.