I'm searching for an easy way to create button

[MightyPancake]

As the title says, is there any nice and easy (most importantly, working) way to create a button?
I'm here from an engine that used listeners and I see that in LÖVE we put everything in love.update(dt) (at least "listeners", according to my knowledge). The question then is, how can I detect if player actually presses the button. I can surely make a circle on press and just see if it collides, but I really hope there's a LOT easier way that I just don't see yet. I hope I'll get help

[keharriso]

If you just want a button and no other UI, then the simplest solution is to check if the mouse was pressed in the borders of the button. Something like:

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local buttonBounds = {x = 10, y = 10, width = 200, height = 80}

function love.draw()
	love.graphics.setColor(1, 0, 0)
	love.graphics.rectangle("fill", buttonBounds.x, buttonBounds.y, buttonBounds.width, buttonBounds.height)
end

function love.mousepressed(x, y, button, istouch, presses)
	if x > buttonBounds.x and x < buttonBounds.x + buttonBounds.width and y > buttonBounds.y and y < buttonBounds.y + buttonBounds.height then
		print "Button pressed!"
	end
end

[MightyPancake]

If you just want a button and no other UI, then the simplest solution is to check if the mouse was pressed in the borders of the button. Something like:

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local buttonBounds = {x = 10, y = 10, width = 200, height = 80}

function love.draw()
	love.graphics.setColor(1, 0, 0)
	love.graphics.rectangle("fill", buttonBounds.x, buttonBounds.y, buttonBounds.width, buttonBounds.height)
end

function love.mousepressed(x, y, button, istouch, presses)
	if x > buttonBounds.x and x < buttonBounds.x + buttonBounds.width and y > buttonBounds.y and y < buttonBounds.y + buttonBounds.height then
		print "Button pressed!"
	end
end

That's exactly what I was saying, I just thought there's a more simple and better way of implementing a button already built in. Thanks for answering anyway!