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Just how you are going about and doing this? No need to show off your total source. Just the relevant function.

By the way, sorry for the delay, I tend not to really check these boards as often as I used to.

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Here's the function I'm using to display the mouse pointer, though slightly mangled from its original form from the feeble attempts I made to correct the error. In theory (by my view), the while loop should update the variables 'x' and 'y' every time the loop executes, which would keep a running tab on the location of the mouse. When the mouse button is pressed, the x and y coordinates of the mouse are checked (via the last update of x and y) and then checked against the position of the only entity on the screen (this is only a test of my plan, later I'll update it for multiple entities), and if they match the sound is played. The only problem is, whenever I click nothing happens. Using the console to check the values of 'x' and 'y', I find that both are somehow equal to zero, as if the engine never updated them while it was running. Both 'x' and 'y' are declated in system.vc, so I don't think it's a scope problem (can you declare vars in .vc files besides system.vc?). My closest guess would be that the division is throwing off the engine, because both 'x' and 'y' are ints. However, if the vars work like they do in actual C++, then the decimal part should just be truncated, right? Also, I have no idea how to use 'entity.x' and 'entity.y', so I've been treating them as arrays. If you wouldn't mind telling me how they really work, I would be very thankful. Sorry for talking on like that, I was just trying to get you a glimpse into my mind's processes. Thank you in advance for all of your help. And now, without further ado, my source code.

void MouseControl()
{
LoadFont("system.fnt");
pointer = LoadImage("pointer2.pcx");
SetMousePos(50,50);
while(!(mb & 1))
{
Render();
TCopySprite(mx, my, 24, 20, pointer);
ShowPage();
ReadMouse();
x = mx/screenx;
y = my/screeny;
}
ReadMouse();
TCopySprite(mx, my, 24, 20, pointer);
ShowPage();
// x = mx/screenx;
// y = my/screeny;
charx = entity.x[character]/screenx;
chary = entity.y[character]/screeny;

if(x=charx && y=chary)
{
PlaySound(sephSound,63,128);
}


Thanks again.

CypherAlmasy
Co-President/Head Programmer, Split Infinity Productions.

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Life is an RPG. How much experience have you earned?

Thank you very much, TSB. I'll try this one out once I manage to get my compiler working.

CypherAlmasy

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Life is an RPG. How much experience have you earned?

Hmmm, try dividing by 16 instead of screenx, screeny.
Seeing how each tile has 16 pixels each and the usual character width is 16 pixels, it makes sense and oughta work. By the way, you also have to give control of the character the player via the SetPlayer function, but I assume you're already doing that...

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Remove whatever button that doesn't need to be pressed.

For example, if the first button is what you need, just type...

if((mb & 1))
{
stuff
}

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