Mouse inside an image

[Anxiety]

How can i detect if the mouse is inside an image? Its for my first game ever, im really excited about it!

[BlackBulletIV]

Welcome! Good luck with your first game. Here's some code that should help you (not tested and off the top of my head):

Code: Select all

function checkMouse(x, y, width, height)
  local mx, my = love.mouse.getPosition()
  return mx >= x and my >= y and mx <= x + width and my <= y + height
end

Pass in the x/y position of the image, as well as the width and height. The function basically checks to see whether the mouse is within (or on top of) the bounding box of the image.

[Anxiety]

Nope. I tried to do this:

Code: Select all

function love.mousepressed(x, y, button)
	if button == '1' then
		if checkMouse(headx, heady, head:getWidth(), head:getHeight()) == true then
			score = score + 1
		end
	end
end

But no score is added.

[nevon]

Nope. I tried to do this:

Code: Select all

function love.mousepressed(x, y, button)
	if button == '1' then
		if checkMouse(headx, heady, head:getWidth(), head:getHeight()) == true then
			score = score + 1
		end
	end
end

But no score is added.

That would be because there's no mouse button '1'. It's a lower-case L for left mouse button, not 1, though I do see how one could mistake them for one another.

[Anxiety]

Yay it works! And the lower case L is just a few pixels different from 1 in Notepad++.

[BlackBulletIV]

Good stuff

[RPG]

Mouse click, move, over, drag and drop are integrated in lQuery