no offset drag and drop

The usual method of set x,y to mouse x,y, always moves the object to its hotspot.

This method gets the offset from the hotspot, or basically gets the relative coordinate from where you clicked, and moves it there.

Ie click a corner, drag that corner, not drag from the hotspot.

Demo here:

no offset drag and drop

Nice :)

Thanks, newt.

Nice example. You can also do it by delta-x and delta-y rather than distance/angle, but I guess it works the same.

FWIW I was going to add an official drag+drop behavior at some point which also supports touch.

Thanks.

Cool, planning on a major upgrade soon with touch screen monitor, so definitely looking forward to that Ashley.

FWIW I was going to add an official drag+drop behavior at some point which also supports touch.

By the way, is there an official roadmap or todo list somewhere? I can't find it. Just so we know what to expect in the not-so-distant future :)

Thanks.

Hi newt,

Could this be used for touch functions aswell?

If so, how would you achieve this...

Just add the touch object, and switch out mouse.x, mouse.y, for touch.x, touch.y, and the relative conditions.

drag and drop touch

Note you will need the mouse object for preview, haven't tested on export.

Cheers man! Ill test it!

It works perfect,

If I just wanted to use X positions for drag and drop how would I achieve this?

At the moment it requires 4 parameters. What value do I use?

Not sure what you mean, Im guessing, just delete the y's.

Scrap that, I've figured it out!

Cheers newt for your assistance! :)

I just tested capx file with touch object on my iPad2. With some objects works perfectly, with some really amazing result. For example - if I touch long rectangular in the middle it will automatically move 40-50 pixels up or left top diagonal around 50-60 pixels.

I repeat - not with all objects. I strictly copied all events. On laptop works excellent. On ipad - not so perfect. Is there any idea how to fix it?

I found a mistake. There is a correct file for Drag and Drop with Touch object:

drag_and_drop_touch.capx

Hi, second day using Construct 2, here. I took Newt's example file and copied everything exactly (as far as I can figure), but my Sprite doesn't drag and drop like Newt's does. Can someone take a look at my file and tell me what I'm doing wrong? TIA.

dl.dropbox.com/s/4atm0vl7c1qaxv1/Box.capx

You have change the touch objects preferences to use mouse.

Click the touch object, preferences are over to the top left.

But you would be better off using the drag and drop behavior.