When touch is released -> Animate (then disable touch)

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• Canioh Member Posts: 200

  March 2011

  Create a boolean attribute called "can touch" then put all the rules and behaviors that you mentioned into a new rule that says: When Attribute "Can Touch" is true: And then all your rules. And then in your release behavior say "change attribute" can touch to false.
• enginsoysal Member Posts: 4

  March 2011

  Hi Canioh,
  
  Thanks for the quick reply.
  
  Unfortunately I can't seem to make it work. As I said I'm pretty new at gamesalad and have a lot to learn.
  
  The first thing is that I don't know where to create a new boolean calling it "canTouch".
  
  I tried at the scene but thought how can this effect the actor? So I created a new boolean on the actor calling it "canTouch".
  
  I created a new rule:
  
  attribute -> self.canTouch is True
  
  (then in the behaviours)
  Rule:
  Actor receives event -> touch is release
  
  Animate
  (and then the 26 images)
  
  On the preview it works. When i click on it it animates.
  
  Now I have to create a rule that states canTouch = false and this is where I get stuck.
  
  Adding a "Change Attribute" I get the Expression Editor and if I put in "false" or "1" or "0" it does nothing. It doesn't animate my actor anymore.
  
  I'm a little stuck here and some help would be appreciated.
  
  Thanks,
  
  Engin
• enginsoysal Member Posts: 4

  March 2011

  Hi T-ShirtBooth,
  
  I see where you're going with this but this is not actually what I want.
  
  I have a ball rotating 180 degrees from its pivot point. When the ball is touched it animates it by rotating. But the downsize is that when it's animating you can touch it again and thus it stops the animation and starts all over.
  
  What I want is that the touch function should be disabled while the ball is rotating untill it's finished...
  
  Engin
• JohnPapiomitis Member Posts: 6,256

  March 2011

  what tshirt said is what you want to do i just think he might have messed the wording up
  
  self.can touch should be set to true
  
  have a rule when touch is pressed AND self.can touch is true
  in that rule put your animate behavior, and a change attribute behavior changing self.can touch to false
  then have a timer in that rule after(how many seconds your animation takes) with run to completion checked, and have a change attribute behavior in that timer changin self. can touch to true
  
  that will work since while the animation is taking place, can touch will be false so it wont re animate, and you can only re animate once the last once has finished
  
  cheers
• enginsoysal Member Posts: 4

  March 2011

  Thanks guys... it worked ... (almost thought I was stupid for not getting it right away ... )
  
  Will post the game if it's finished ...
  
  Engin
• MotherHoose Member Posts: 2,456

  March 2011

  rather than a timer...to trigger for change in canTouch
  
  you could nest(add) a Rule under your animation...
  
  when self.Image = (last image in animation)
  changeAttribute game.canTouch To: true
  
  MH