Changing Actor colour seems to be random? Help!

SuperDannyG

Hi Guys,

New to the GS world and have hit a stumbling block that I hope you can help with

I'm trying to create an actor that when the mouse clicks on it, it changes colour.
Then if you click on it again, it changes back.

So, it starts white. If I click it, it turns black, then if I click it again, it turns white.

I've used When ALL touch is PRESSED do:
Change Attribute
Set game.SelectedTile1 To 1-game.SelectedTile1
(game.SelectedTile1 is an integer value)

Then I've got it where:
If game.SelectedTile1 = 0
Change Attribute
self.color.red=1
self.color.green=1
self.color.blue=1

Else
Change Attribute
self.color.red=0
self.color.green=0
self.color.blue=0

The good news is that it works. If I click it, it does indeed change from white to black and and back again.

However, the issue is that it seems to be random. If I click it once, nothing. Twice, nothing, third time it works. Once, nothing, twice it works; and so on.

My question is why and what am I doing wrong?

Cheers.

SuperDannyG

Ok, maybe it's me?

When I click on them, they seem to randomly change colour.

However, if I click and hold for a second, then it works every time.

Has anyone else experienced this before?

SuperDannyG

Hi Guys,

I'm having an issue with changing an Actors colour.

What I want is to have many copies of the same actor on the screen (say 10), and if I click on one of them, then only that one changes colour (form white to black). If I click it again, it goes from black to white.

Here's what I've done.

I've used When ALL touch is PRESSED do:
Change Attribute
Set game.SelectedTile1 To 1-game.SelectedTile1
(game.SelectedTile1 is an integer value)

Then I've got it where:
If game.SelectedTile1 = 0
Change Attribute
self.color.red=1
self.color.green=1
self.color.blue=1

Else
Change Attribute
self.color.red=0
self.color.green=0
self.color.blue=0

Now this works, but if I copy this actor 10 times and click it, they all change colour.

How do I make it so it's independent of the others?

I'd rather not write out 100 separate rules

tatiang

/merged

Please add comments to this existing thread rather than starting a new one.

tatiang

The reason they are all changing color is because you've used a rule that relies on a game attribute, the same game attribute, for all 10 copies. If you want them to independently change color, use a self attribute.

Or for a shortcut without an extra attribute, try this:

When touch is pressed
     Change attribute self.color.red to 1-self.color.red
     Change attribute self.color.green to 1-self.color.green
     Change attribute self.color.blue to 1-self.color.blue

SuperDannyG

@tatiang thank you so much! That worked perfectly

I didn't think to use a self attribute.

And thanks for merging the threads.

tatiang

You're welcome!