mousePressed versus mouseDragged - both needed. Right order?

Chrisir

Hello all,

I need to use mousePressed versus mouseDragged - both are needed.

What is the right order?

What I need:

• I need to click an apple to change it to another fruit (I use mouseClicked).
• But I also need to drag the apple.

So I use mousePressed and then set mouseHold to true

but how can I distinguish if it has been dragged or just clicked (in the function mouseReleased)?

Thank you all!

Greetings, Chrisir

quark

Create a boolean variable called beingDragged and initialise it to false.

In mouseDragged set it to true.

In mouseReleased test it to see whether the mouse had been dragged. In any case set it to false before leaving the method to reset it.

Chrisir

Thanks, quark!

I got confused because I used mouseClicked first which doesn't go together with mouseDragged...

now my order is:

• mousePressed (it occurs no matter if you click or drag and before releasing) - store index of apple
• mouseDragged (set beingDragged to true)
• mouseReleased (in mouseReleased check the boolean variable called beingDragged and do the appropriate thing: either change fruit (when false) or position (when true))

don't use mouseClicked ...

Also in draw() I say: When beingDragged show apple at mouse-position...

Thanks a lot!

Greetings, Chrisir