How do I get an object to follow the mouse round the screen?

Dee McArdle · **Joined:** November 3rd, 2005, 10:55 am **Posts:** 8

I wonder if anyone out there can help me?
How do I get an object to follow the mouse round the screen?

Ronnie Dackus · **Posted:** August 8th, 2006, 11:07 am

Hi Dee,

Try this,

Set in page properties on "mouse move" action:

Code:

var mousePos = GetMousePosition()
var mouseX = mousePos.x
var mouseY = mousePos.y
Object.SetPosition(mouseX,mouseY)

You must replace object by the name of the object to follow.

Hope this helps

cheers

Ronnie

Duncan Lilly · **Posted:** August 8th, 2006, 2:01 pm

Scripting is not necessary - you can just use the Move Object To Cursor action from a Mouse Move trigger. You can put the action in an If statement with a flag variable to turn on and off the following.

Steve H · **Joined:** October 26th, 2004, 1:26 pm **Posts:** 262

Hi Dee,

To expand on the already good replies here, if you are not sure how to "stop" the object from following the mouse cursor around the screen (if you set up a loop action), then look at the very simple non-script IMP example. If this is not what you want, then specify exactly what you want to happen.

bwpatric · **Joined:** November 3rd, 2004, 2:11 pm **Posts:** 323

If you do use the scripting, you may wish to put in a delay, that way the object does not automatically "attach" itself to the cursor.

Code:

var mousePos = GetMousePosition()
var mouseX = mousePos.x
var mouseY = mousePos.y
wait(.12)
v1.SetPosition(mouseX,mouseY) 

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