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Re: [pygame] Struggling with mouse input



> Pygame newbie here.  I'm writing what could be considered an
> Asteroids-type clone (actually, it's an Odyssey II UFO! clone but nobody
> probably remembers OII) and want to turn my ship using the mouse.  Is
> there a standard way to do this, or perhaps a sample I could look at?
> Basically, I'm catching MOUSEMOTION events and comparing the X values from
> the current and previous frames to determine which direction to turn.

Figured it out.  I was only taking into account position change, not the
actual pixels traveled.

Told you I was a newbie...