How to detect single mouse clicks - Revision history

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		+	When trying to detect single [[mouse]] clicks, using just the [[Mouse.button\|mouse.button]] function alone won't work.
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		+	This function returns 1 (a [[True\|true]] value) as long as the mouse button is being clicked / held down.
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		+	What you want instead is to register the first instant the mouse went down (was "clicked") and then ignore "mouse down" events until the mouse button is released. Then you are ready to react to a next mouse down / held / released cycle.
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		+	For that, you can use a loop similar to this:
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	<ms>wasDown = false		<ms>wasDown = false
	while true // press Control-C to exit		while true // press Control-C to exit

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 	isDown = mouse.button
 	if isDown and not wasDown then
-		print "Sprite clicked!"
+		print "Mouse button clicked!"
 	end if
 	wasDown = isDown

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