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%modifiers in onMouseDown for playGUI - do they work?

by Matthew Genge · in Torque 3D Professional · 06/18/2012 (4:11 pm) · 2 replies

I am trying to get an RTS camera working. I've managed to work around the lack of a working onMouseDragged using a schedule. I am now trying to make the camera turn if the shift button is pressed when the mouse is dragged. If there is any sense at all the code below should work...however...even when no button at all is pressed except the mouse button the value in %modifier changes every five or six clicks...and half of these return true with a bitwise comparison to $EventModifier::LSHIFT.

So my question is...it it broke...or have I made a mistake? I have added useModifiers="1" to playGUI, but it doesn't seem to make any difference.

function PlayGui::onMouseDown(%this, %modifier, %mousepos, %mouseclick)
{
   //Save the cursor values
   %mousepos = Canvas.getCursorPos();
   LocalClientConnection.cursorX = getWord(%mousepos,0);
   LocalClientConnection.cursorY = getWord(%mousepos,1);
   LocalClientConnection.mouseisDown = 1;
   echo(%modifier SPC (%modifier & $EventModifier::LSHIFT));
   if(%modifier & $EventModifier::LSHIFT){
      %this.schedule(50, "mouseTurnCamera");
   } else {
      %this.schedule(50, "mouseDragged");
   }
}

Many thanks for any tips.
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Torque Owner Richard Ranft
Roostertail Games
#1
06/18/2012 (7:20 pm)
Just a note here - not sure if it'll help, but for some reason the system only picks up make on shift and not break. In other words, it knows when the key goes down, but not when it comes back up.

Might be a good idea to expose onMouseDragged() to the console. The function is there, so I'm not sure why it wasn't exposed.

Matthew Genge
HPTWare
#2
06/19/2012 (2:29 am)
Thanks Richard,

Using a schedule actually works very well. I have a work around for the shift key, to simply bind it and set a clientside variable. So:

moveMap.bind(keyboard,lshift, shiftdown);

function shiftdown(%val)
{
   LocalClientConnection.lshift = %val;
}

function PlayGui::onMouseDown(%this, %modifier, %mousepos, %mouseclick)
{
   //Save the cursor values
   %mousepos = Canvas.getCursorPos();
   LocalClientConnection.cursorX = getWord(%mousepos,0);
   LocalClientConnection.cursorY = getWord(%mousepos,1);
   LocalClientConnection.mouseisDown = 1;
   if(LocalClientConnection.lshift){
      %this.schedule(50, "mouseTurnCamera");
   } else {
      %this.schedule(50, "mouseDragged");
   }
}