How to touch and select more than one node? (SOLVED)

Questions
1

I have a bunch of nodes next to each other and I want to be able to select one after the other. But action.pressed only seems to select one node but doesn’t select anymore after touching the screen once.

for i=1,5 do

    if action.pressed then

        if pieces[i] and gui.pick_node(pieces[i], action.x, action.y)  then

            print("piece pressed "..i)

        end
    end
end

I’m a complete newbie and so perhaps, I’m missing something obvious here. Thanks for any and all help.

2

action.pressed is only triggered on the frame that the touch happens. Do you have multi touch enabled for sure?

3

Thanks for taking an interesting in my issue.

I’m an idiot cause I think I figured it out. Just needed to add a variable to take note of the fact that a node has been touched upon.

for i=1,5 do

if action.pressed then

	if pieces[i] and gui.pick_node(pieces[i].group, action.x, action.y) and not pieces[i].isPressed then

		print("piece pressed "..i)
                    mydata.nodePressed = true

		end

	else

	if mydata.nodePressed and pieces[i] and (not pieces[i].isPressed) and gui.pick_node(pieces[i].group, action.x, action.y) then

		print("pieces .."..i)
		

	end

end

end
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