On screen button

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I have created a gui object with 2 boxes to act as buttons and one script. I would like this script to send a message to the player object depending on which button was pressed.
My question is how to know which button was pressed?

local jump = gui.get_node("jump")
local shoot = gui.get_node("shoot")

I get the reference to the buttons, but still can’t figure out which one received the input.

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You can use gui.pick_node to see if mouse/touch/action.xy is within the rectangle of a specific gui node you are using for buttons. Then you check action events to see if button is released etc.

Consider using a GUI system already made such as

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Thanks. I used gui.pick_node.

Bonus question: Can I not test touch input on a computer? I had to map a mouse button in order to test this code.

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You can use touch on PCs.

Post your input file here.

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In touch triggers I have:
input: multi-touch
action: touch

function on_input(self, action_id, action)
	local jump = gui.get_node("jump")
	local shoot = gui.get_node("shoot")
	
	if action_id  == hash("touch") and action.pressed then
		if gui.pick_node(jump, action.x, action.y) then
			print("Jump Clicked")
		elseif gui.pick_node(shoot, action.x, action.y) then
			print("Shoot Clicked")
		end
	end
end

Nothing. But works if I replaced hash(“touch”) with hash(“mouse”) which is also mapped.

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Multitouch I think can only be tested on devices but you can still detect mouse-button-1 as “touch” and on mobile it will also count as a touch input I am pretty sure.

Test this

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