The right location of mousepressed

[Azvd]

Hi, guys!

As you can see, I'm new and starting right now with LÖVE.
So... I was reading the Getting Started and saw that love.update(dt) is called continuously to update everything.

Well, I was trying to do something and made this:

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function love.load()
  love.window.setTitle("Jogo Legal")
  char = love.graphics.newImage("avatar.png")
  imgx = 400
  imgy = 300
end

function love.update(dt)
  function love.mousepressed(x, y, button, istouch)
    if button == 1 then
      imgx = x
      imgy = y
    end
  end
end

function love.draw()
  love.graphics.draw(char, imgx, imgy)
end

I've did it before reading the whole tutorial. I've opened the mousepressed page of the wiki and saw that this function was outside the love.update. I went searching here in forums and saw some people using it outside update, even though it updated some variables.

Well, what's the right place for it? I mean, I'm not calling this function everytime, so it should be inside love.update, since I use it to update the coordinates of my image, no? I don't get it hahaha
Ignore if it's a stupid question, I'm still learning

Cya,
Azvd

[Nixola]

The love.mousepressed function should be defined outside love.update; you don't even need to call it. Its purpose is to be available so that LÖVE itself can call it when a mouse button is pressed. What you have technically works, but redefines the function every frame which is unneeded.

[Azvd]

The love.mousepressed function should be defined outside love.update; you don't even need to call it. Its purpose is to be available so that LÖVE itself can call it when a mouse button is pressed. What you have technically works, but redefines the function every frame which is unneeded.

Oh, I see. Thank you @Nixola! Very helpful and fast on answering