Checking whether text is under mouse

[MrPickle]

I am trying to make pong so I can teach myself a few things about Lua, I'm trying to do the menu at the moment.
I want the text to change colour when the mouse goes over it, I _sort_ of have it working but it doesn't work very well.

I have attached a .love file

P.S. I'm sorry for the amount of topics I'm making, I do try to solve these myself but you know

[rude]

The easiest thing to do is to use hitboxes. I hacked together a quick example for you.

[MrPickle]

Could you please explain to me this bit:

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for name,t in pairs(menu) do

[mastastealth]

As far as I understand, what it's doing is going down each item in the "menu" array which is:

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    ["Start"] = { x = 300, y = 225, w = 200, h = 25 },
    ["Options"] = { x = 300, y = 255, w = 200, h = 25 },
    ["Destroy Humans"] = { x = 300, y = 285, w = 200, h = 25 },
    ["Awaken the Dead"] = { x = 300, y = 315, w = 200, h = 25 },
    ["Quit"] = { x = 300, y = 345, w = 200, h = 25 },

So you have those 5 items, it looks like the name is being used as the key, with the values being various variables to create your hitboxes.

So the code in the draw() is going down each menu item ("name", the key) , checking if the mouse position (x,y) is inside the hitbox (which is the variable "t", which is the value being passed into the for loop) and changing the color of the text accordingly.

[rude]

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for name,t in pairs(menu) do

There are two types of for loops in Lua, numeric for, which you already know, and generic for. Generic for operates on iterators, and pairs() returns an iterator for the table passed as the parameter.

So in the code above, the next key/value pair will be stored in name/t for each loop iteration.

[MrPickle]

I see! Thanks.