Re: [pygame] mouse scroll wheel

[Pete Shinners <pete@shinners.org>]

> I've tried the following:
>
> if event.type == pyame.MOUSEBUTTONDOWN:
>    print pygame.mouse.get_pressed
>
> So pygame is seeing the event, but can't return to me any useful info. 
> Or am I trying to read this using the wrong function?
the "MOUSEBUTTONDOWN" event actually comes with a "button" attribute, 
so you can know which button was pushed at the time of the event.

if event.type == pygame.MOUSEBUTTONDOWN:
    print event.button

you can see a list of all the event types and the attributes they come 
with near the top of the event documentation.
http://pygame.org/docs/ref/pygame_event.html


actually, for any type of mouse (and keyboard) event, you will want to 
use the attributes that come with the event. inside a full game, it 
may take a few milliseconds before an event can be processed. the user 
could hit one of the three mouse buttons and by the time you called 
pygame.mouse.get_pressed() it would already be released.