Making an int change with mouse movement...

[Technocrat]

No idea if I'm fundamentally misunderstanding how AGS's mouse things work, and do point me in the right direction if I am, but I'm wondering if there's a means of getting an int to change with the mouse's movement. In my case for example, increasing as it moves to the right, and decreasing towards the left. I was thinking of something like using the mouse's.y position on the screen, but a) the int would never get below 0 or above 320, and b) the int would always be the y position, rather than consistently increasing with right movement, and vice versa.

Hopefully I've made myself clear enough! Merci beaucoup.

[DoorKnobHandle]

What you need to do is:

Every frame, get the current mouse position on the x-axis. Compare this value to the mouse position from last frame. If they differ, the mouse was moved recently, take that difference and add it to your variable and that's it.

This is absolutely untested code (and I haven't played with this kind of AGS coding in a while):

Code: ags

int old_mouse_x;
int variable;

function rep_ex ( )
{
      int mouse_x = mouse.X;

      if ( mouse_x != old_mouse_x )
      // if the mouse was moved recently
            variable += mouse_x - old_mouse_x;

      // store the current mouse position as the old one for the next frame to use
      old_mouse_x = mouse_x;
}

In this example, 'variable' will be the value you're looking for. Try displaying it on a GUI or something to check it out.

Hope this helps, let me know if there are any problems.

[Technocrat]

Ah, I see. For my purposes, if I use your script verbatim, it's making an array go out of bounds, so now I'm adapting it to my purposes as well based on that. Many thanks!

[Calin Leafshade]

sorry i dont quite understand the point of this.

If you want the mouse position just use mouse.x or mouse.y. you dont need to store it in a variable it already is in a variable.

[Matti]

He wants to measure the mouse movement, the mouse coordinates don't suffice for that.