How do I get a specific touch index coordinates?

I have this event sheet

I'm trying to create a dpad for my spaceship.

It works just fine when the only touch is on the DPad, but when I touch the screen, and then the DPad at the same time, the spaceship doesn't move as wanted...

I've also tried adding another condition in event 2 comparing Touch.TouchIndex to TouchIndex variable, but didn't help as well...

Any idea? I would like to move the space at the angle calculated by the TouchIndex I already saved...

Thanks!

On nth touch, is nth touch.

Thanks, but I can't see "is nth touch" or "on nth touch" in the conditions list. There's "Has nth touch" but in my case that will always be true...

I've tried adding Compare Variable TouchIndex Equal To Touch.TouchIndex, that didn't work as well...

Attaching the capx here:

http://ge.tt/2xEpUGb2

Index 0 is dpad, 1 is ship.

Sorry, but I couldn't really understand what you're tying to say...

Could you please elaborate on the issue?

Let's just simplify it a little.

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/666 ... touch.capx

Thanks, but this doesn't work if I touch somewhere on the screen and a second touch on the dpad...

I've updated it to do something if there is a second touch.

I can only guess at what you want it to do.

Nonspecific questions get non specific answers.

Why not simple ...

https://www.dropbox.com/s/ehtaepf7693rr ... .capx?dl=0

https://www.dropbox.com/s/ehtaepf7693rr ... .capx?dl=0

newt, sorry if I have been cryptic but I wrote my exact issue in the first post... I'm trying to create a dpad for my ship. it works, but when clicking the fire button first and then the dpad, I can't detect which touch is the dpad one...

Why not simple ...

https://www.dropbox.com/s/ehtaepf7693rr ... .capx?dl=0

https://www.dropbox.com/s/ehtaepf7693rr ... .capx?dl=0

Thanks, because dpads are very small in general, so I wanted to extend the range of moving, by moving potentially all across the screen, once the user started touching the dpad.

Your code in the OP is not valid since you only modify the TouchIndex value in the "On touched" event (which actually triggers once the touch is over and the user removed his finger).

In your case, you should rather set TouchIndex value in a "On any touch start" event.

Then in your event 2, in addition to "is touching", add the condition "Has Nth touch" where Nth value is TouchIndex as Newt was saying from the get go.

Thanks, because dpads are very small in general, so I wanted to extend the range of moving, by moving potentially all across the screen, once the user started touching the dpad.

Okay, this i understand, so you want the index of the touch when the dtap is tapped, set a boolean to know that it is tapped, and unset the boolean when that the touch of that index is taken away from the screen.

Als long as the boolean is set, the ship moves.

At the same time player can tap (or hold ?) anywhere on the screen to fire bullets.

I did not understand purpose of the events as showed in the first post.

I try to make a capx later, if no one else did it b4 me.

—, exactly. All is ok if I touch the dpad and move the ship and then touch the fire button.

Problem starts when I first click the fire button, and only then touch the dpad to make the ship move. I get very weird ship movement...

—, I think my problem resides in the fact that "is in touch" refers to ANY touch on the screen, and in its action, Touch.X will return the first Touch X, and not the one I really want to calculate from. so if I have 2 touches (first, the fire, then the dpad), there's no way for me to get Touches[1].X.