How do I scroll my camera in the opposite direction of dragging?

I'm trying to make my layout appear to scroll the same way my finger is dragging the camera, as if I were directly dragging the level itself.

I found this older thread that seems to provide a solution to what I want to achieve with respect to the camera behavior:

construct.net/en/forum/construct-3/how-do-i-8/scroll-opposite-direction-drag-151132

However, when I tried to implement it in my project, nothing happens. The dragging/panning of the camera still goes in the default direction/speed.

It seems like I'm missing something really basic because there is literally no difference when I toggle the added action on/off.

Here is my project:

drive.google.com/file/d/16iLFCraaD_uxVoGWcS6ypj20Qnmch3-s/view

See this demo project:

howtoconstructdemos.com/scroll-by-dragging-the-screen-with-touch-or-mouse

See this demo project:

https://howtoconstructdemos.com/scroll-by-dragging-the-screen-with-touch-or-mouse/

Thanks so much, the dragging/scrolling is perfect now!

However there is now a new issue. In my project the player stays in the center of the screen (based on the viewport), but when I pan the view back and forth, the player gets really jittery and lags behind the panning slightly.

I tried to fix this by setting a camera object on a separate "hud" layer and anchoring it to the center without parallax to have an object that is 'perfect' (no jittering), and then setting the Player to always be at the same X axis as that object, but it didn't work. I suspect you can't have objects interacting from different layers.

Is there any other way to keep my character jumping in the center of the screen, while the view pans around, without jittering?

Here is another link to the (updated) project.

drive.google.com/file/d/16iLFCraaD_uxVoGWcS6ypj20Qnmch3-s/view

I will probably have to go with the other method, but the “dragging the view” method I was trying here did have advantages: You can control the speed of the dragging (like in your example) so the user could control how sensitive the dragging is. Also if I have enemies pinned to the level firing bullets, the bullets would move at the wrong speed relative to the player object, unless it’s the view being dragged around.

Thanks for the help though, your website seems like a great resource!