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AppGameKit Classic Chat / Press vs Press-and-hold?

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Fluorescent
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Posted: 1st Jan 2016 09:23
I'm trying to work something out where I want to be able to either click or click and hold on a sprite. I'm currently using GetPointerPressed and GetPointerState, just in case I want to put my little game on a touch screen device. But I'm starting to think that it's not going to work. Do I have to start a timer on GetPointerPressed to see if the player is holding the button down perhaps?
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Posted: 1st Jan 2016 12:21
Use a float variable. When getPointerPressed() is detected, set it to Timer().
When you detect GetPointerReleased(), check the variable against the current Timer() value. Decide what is a suitable length of time for a click, anything greater than this is a hold.
You will probably want to reference this variable during a hold too, not just at the end of the hold. You will need to account for the fact that it isn't a hold until X milliseconds have passed, and make sure this doesn't interfere with the gameplay.
Don't forget to reset the variable to 0 after getPointerReleased(). Then you can use it to determine what state the pointer is in at any point in your game.
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Posted: 1st Jan 2016 12:57 Edited at: 1st Jan 2016 13:05
example from me:
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Posted: 1st Jan 2016 16:30
Thank you! That really helped!

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