Re: [pygame] checking mouse button state

["Sean Berry" <seaneseor@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hey Jake,

You're putting your 'self.player.fire()' inside the 'for' block that's processing your events.

Take your method #2 and put it outside of the 'for' block.

# code:
events = pygame.event.get()
for event in events:
    
    # 1) this block doesn't seem to work right unless moving mouse:
    (b1,b2,b3) = pygame.mouse.get_pressed()
    if b1:                
        self.player.fire()
        print 'down'
    
    if event.type == MOUSEMOTION: pass
    elif event.type == MOUSEBUTTONDOWN: self.mouse.down = True
    elif event.type == MOUSEBUTTONUP: self.mouse.down = False

#else, tried: 2) 
if self.mouse.down:# or True:        
    self.player.fire()
    print 'down

-Sean

p.s. is it called a for loop? for block? eh

On Sat, Jan 10, 2009 at 7:47 PM, Jake b <ninmonkeys@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I want to do a simple:

        if LeftMouseDown(): fire()

But it is failing. Right now both ways I try, it only says the button is down if the mouse is moving. If I stay at the same x,y coord, it says the button not pressed(but it is).

# code:
events = pygame.event.get()
for event in events:
   
    # 1) this block doesn't seem to work right unless moving mouse:
    (b1,b2,b3) = pygame.mouse.get_pressed()
    if b1:               
        self.player.fire()
        print 'down'
   
    #else, tried: 2)
    if self.mouse.down:# or True:       
        self.player.fire()
        print 'down'
   
    if event.type == MOUSEMOTION: pass
    elif event.type == MOUSEBUTTONDOWN: self.mouse.down = True
    elif event.type == MOUSEBUTTONUP: self.mouse.down = False

   
I'm surprised at method #2 failing, since I never change the value of mouse.down anywhere else in the code, except those two lines above.
--
Jake