Is on_input mouse_button1 the same on a Android device? (SOLVED)

Questions
1

Hi,
I’m trying to read what will eventually be touch input on a mobile device screen. So I’m testing on a Windows 10 PC with the following code:

function on_input(self, action_id, action)
if action_id == hash(“mb1”) then
msg.post(“mygui”,“xy”,action)
else
msg.post(“mygui”,“touchup”)
end
end

MB1 is the action for a mouse_trigger 0 for mouse button 1.

Then in my GUI script, I handle the message xy to set a text node to the XY coordinates and another one to say touch down or I set it to touch up, when the mouse button isn’t being pressed.

The thing is, when I run this on Windows, when the mouse button is pressed, I get what I expect. But if I hold the button down and move the mouse, the input reacts as the mouse button is being pressed and released.
When I test the app on an Android device, it works as I expected it to.

Am I doing something wrong?

Thanks,

David

2

You must look at action.pressed and action.released to detect when the mouse button is pressed and released. There’s also action.repeated that gets triggered with some interval.

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3

Thanks, I can see that action.released gets set to true when the mouse button is released. However, action.pressed released & repeated are mostly false. I do see a released set to true when I release.
Should action.pressed be true?

4

action.pressed will be generated once. If you need to keep track of the state of the mouse button you typically do this in a variable on the script. Example:

function on_input(self, action_id, action)
  if action_id == hash("mb1") then
    if action.pressed then
      self.mb1_pressed = true
    elseif action.released then
      self.mb1_pressed = false
    end
  end
  if self.mb1_pressed then
    print("mb1 is pressed")
  end
end
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5

Thanks, got it now. I was reading it all wrong :slight_smile: