Distinguishing clicks

[wichiwichi]

Hi there!

 

Is there a unique identifier so I can distinguish one click from another?

 

This doesn't seem to be what I'm looking for http://docs.phaser.io/Phaser.Pointer.html#identifier 

[lewster32]

How do you mean distinguish clicks? Do you mean determine multiple fingers when doing multitouch?

[wichiwichi]

I mean there's a click that lasts of x seconds, then there's no click, then another click that lasts for another x seconds. Is there a value/identifier to distinguish one click from another?

 

I've got a sprite that is clicked for several seconds and I want to capture the next click, so I want to do something like:

 

if (isClick && isDifferentFromLastClick)

 

 

 

Sorry for not being very clear, I don't know how to express it

[lewster32]

No, I'm afraid not, but you can do this easily yourself. If all you want is to ensure that each click is unique, you could just store the number of clicks as a value, and increment it each time the click handler is called, though I don't see how this is any different from just doing something each time the click handler is called anyway - since each call is a unique click!

 

If you want a bit more sophistication, you could add a small timer which increments the counter only if a specified period of time has passed since the last click: http://jsfiddle.net/lewster32/cGCLS/

[wichiwichi]

Thanks!

 

I think one of my problems was that inside the update function I had a click for each frame, so I couldn't tell apart what was still the same click. But I think with the counter example I can get over it. I didn't think about it

 

thanks again!!

[lewster32]

Ah I see - for discreet events like this you should be using the onDown and similar events rather than polling the isDown properties I think, as the latter is meant for continuous inputs such as rapid firing, thrust or moving.