this.touching property help

Battlesquid

I recently learned that you can check to see if an object is colliding against a specific side of a collider. However, I run this code to test if it works:

var bool = str(platform.touching.left);
text(bool, 100, 100);

And it returns the error Cannot read property 'left' of undefined. Why is this not working? Help would be greatly appreciated :)

GoToLoop

Cannot read property 'left' of undefined

It means property touching is undefined. 8-X

https://Developer.Mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Glossary/Undefined

Battlesquid

Oof. I assume the property was never implemented; it's there in the library though, so I'll double check my code again/look for examples that use this property, if any.

EDIT: I know what I did wrong, and it was so silly. The platform is an object I created, and I was defining a property that never existed within the class. I'll modify the code so it doesn't do that and report if it's a success.

Battlesquid

Ok, now my code won't return errors, but it always returns false for any side I try to check. I read in the docs that it was used in conjunction with collide() and overlap(), but those already return boolean values themselves. I've also tried:

if(player.collide(platform) && player.touching.left)

But that doesn't work. I tried to look it up, but I didn't find anything. Can somebody help please? :)

EDIT: I figured it out, just took some testing and time :)