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I'm kind of a newbie, but right now I'm tinkering around and trying to get an image to move across the screen in a direction dependent on the side of the screen the user clicks on.

So basically the image moves left or right when the left or right side of the screen is clicked, but only while the mouse is down.

What I have right now is this:
So basically in the love.mousepressed function I've tried to have a while loop that checks if the mouse is pressed, then depending on which half of the screen (based off of my phone's screen resolution because this stemmed out of touch controls) is clicked, increases or decreases the velocity. The else at the end is just trying to get the moving object to slow down gradually rather than instantly but the number needs adjustment.

Right now it won't do anything if you click anywhere in the window, not sure what I need to do to fix this.

Hey, first things first it is better to instead of figuring out yourself you screen half resolution, let LOVE find it for you exactly on any screen
the code is: Both work the same.

Now onto your problem I can't seem to figure out any problems I would recommend you give us the .love file so I can see the code in a "larger scale" and try to figure ou the problem.

Sorry about that - I had to remake the code because I was an idiot and started trailing off doing some other thing in the same file but I got everything back in order and this .love file should more or less be the same.

Another worrying thing is that the program straight up stops responding when left on its own for too long, but maybe I've just written some horrifying feedback loop or something neat sounding like that.

You should only detect things with the mousepressed (and mousereleased) callbacks.

Set some variables in there, then periodically check in love.update, instead of writing an endless loop inside the above callbacks, since that hands your application.

Also, you use love.mouse.isDown in love.update, since the mousepressed callback will be called only when a click did happen.

First, welcome to the forum!

You've got one main problem here. love.mousepressed is called only once, so it doesn't help to build a while/repeat construct there.
Try to use love.update instead.

Some more advices:
#1: When using velocities in LÖVE, try to use dt to make sure your velocity isn't framerate dependent.
#2: try to avoid fixed variables like x=598. Better use something like love.graphics.getWidth()/2 or similar.

I've build an example for you to look at. If you got further questions, feel free to ask.

MadByte wrote:First, welcome to the forum!

You've got one main problem here. love.mousepressed is called only once, so it doesn't help to build a while/repeat construct there.
Try to use love.update instead.

Some more advices:
#1: When using velocities in LÖVE, try to use dt to make sure your velocity isn't framerate dependent.
#2: try to avoid fixed variables like x=598. Better use something like love.graphics.getWidth()/2 or similar.

I've build an example for you to look at.

Moving on mouseclick thingy.love

If you got further questions, feel free to ask.

Thanks for the code reference! Definitely a lot nicer looking than what I've been making...

What I want the "game" (if you could call it that at this point) to do, though, is make the object move at a set velocity only while a side of the screen is clicked/touched.

I'm not entirely sure how I would modify your program to do that, though, it's using a lot of functions and methods I'm not entirely familiar with yet, but I think I get the gist of how everything is working.

pizzahut91 wrote: What I want the "game" (if you could call it that at this point) to do, though, is make the object move at a set velocity only while a side of the screen is clicked/touched.

That's pretty easy to do and also would reduce the amount of code needed because it wouldn't make sense to use love.mousepressed since it just detect one click and doesn't update. To expand on my previous code I would suggest to change the update function to use love.mouse.isDown and remove the direction variable part as well as the mousepressed part.

Updated example:
Edit: updated the *.love because I left the unused object:mousepressed() function in the code.

pizzahut91 wrote: I'm not entirely sure how I would modify your program to do that, though, it's using a lot of functions and methods I'm not entirely familiar with yet, but I think I get the gist of how everything is working.

No worry, it's just because I organise things differently.
You can use the wiki to find out what these functions do.
For the rest take a look at the Lua PIL.