Hi

I have a simple project where you click with the mouse somewhere in the level and my character walks until reach the place i´ve clicked, like a RTS game.

PROBLEM: I have some panels on the screen and whenever i click over the panel(on a button or whatever) it sends my character to the place i´ve clicked. Is there a way to detect that the mouse is over the (or any) panel and not trigger the function that sends the character to the place i´ve clicked?

INFO:
A6 6.4 standard

thanks

From the manual of A6.60:


I don't think that there is a function that tells you whether the mouse is over the panel. I would switch the mouse_range depending on which area of the screen your mouse is.

There is a function but I think its A7 only.
I'll still post it here if someone else needs it: mouse_panel
link: http://www.conitec.net/beta/mouse_panel.htm

@papenheimer

Example:
mouse_range = 100; // only near Entities are clickable
from the manual.
where is the origin of this? is it from the mouse? camera? center of the level?

Anyway its not a good way for me because i have several panels with several different forms ( square, rectangular) and this range is probably spherical.
thanks anyway

@xarthor
yes, its a7 only

anyone else can help me with this?

The range of the mouse is from the camera position and that of the mouse.
It has no scan cone because it is the rectangular ray of the screen of the camera.

If you are picky with the precision of the panels' positions then you have to store the positions of the pixels of the screen which are covered by the panels in an array or whatever you prefer.

I see
storing panels coordinates inside an array makes a lot of sense, although i dont how to do it yet, and havent thought how to do it, since like a RPG game, there will be several panels that will appear and disappear,but yeah, i will give some thought about that.

i just wonder if there's a easier way of doing it.

but thanks for the idea!

i think you don't need an array, I thought you have shapes like a circle, dragon or whatever, but if they are all rectangular, then its easy.

When you click mouse_left then you need which panels are visible.
Getting the panel's position is easy, then you need its x size and y size.
With these values you can compare the mouse position to the panel's position and whether it is within the range of its x and y size.

actually, with the rectagular ones i already did this:


but i still have some different shapes like circle and trapezoid type...(not as hard as a dragon though, lol :p )

It seems you could just nullify the player movement whenever a panel opens.

but still the panels that remains open during the game, whenever i click over them it triggers the movement, thats why i need something to detect whenever my mouse is over a panel!