Any way to differentiate between Mouse vs Touch?

[clark]

I have just an image that follows the mouse basically and at the end of the process I forgot that touch devices do not always generate mouseMoves.  MouseMoves only happen when the pointer is active. 

 

I am sure there is logic in there and a re-write. 

 

However! Just checking, is there any way to do this?

if (this is not a mouse){    //remove from display list}

Thanks!
 

[mxmlb]

Hi,

 

You could just check game.device.desktop or game.device.touch.

http://docs.phaser.io/Phaser.Device.html

[in mono]

Phaser.Pointer should do the job, it has a 'isMouse' property.

 

You need to pass the pointer as a parameter to the event you're subscribing to, then you can do the check like this:

if (!pointer.isMouse) {    // Your code goes here}

[clark]

Man I was looking on the Phaser.Input class!

 

This will suit perfectly for my needs thanks.

 

Just one question though as it will bug me. What happens in the case of a Microsoft Surface for example? Where I guess there could be a mouse plugged in or a touch screen? Maybe this is a question by itself but throwing it out there before marking it solved. Not sure if these are desktops or not and I guess support touch but also could have a mouse too.


 

[mxmlb]

I think it would be detected as touch and not desktop from what I understand of the initialization :

http://docs.phaser.io/Device.js.html#sunlight-1-line-560