Wait for a mouse click function

[FlipTopBin]

Hi All,

I am looking for a way to wait for a mouseclick and then see the coordinates of the click. I was hoping for something nice and easy like:

$ x, y = renpy.waitForMouseClick()

But no such luck it seems.

I found pause and get_mouse_pos() but pause will continue after a keypress as well and I need an actual click.

The use case is a background image with an invisible grid over the top of it. Think of an RPG Maker map. I need the user to click on the image and some areas will activate things and others won't. I am currently porting a game from RPGM so please don't ask me to use that instead.

[Per K Grok]

Hi All,

I am looking for a way to wait for a mouseclick and then see the coordinates of the click. I was hoping for something nice and easy like:

$ x, y = renpy.waitForMouseClick()

But no such luck it seems.

I found pause and get_mouse_pos() but pause will continue after a keypress as well and I need an actual click.

The use case is a background image with an invisible grid over the top of it. Think of an RPG Maker map. I need the user to click on the image and some areas will activate things and others won't. I am currently porting a game from RPGM so please don't ask me to use that instead.

For clicking on areas and get different actions you can use screens, imagemaps with hotspots and maybe buttons.

That's worth getting familiar with before you test other solutions.

https://www.renpy.org/doc/html/screens. ... ht=screens


If you want to do something outside the normal renpy solutions these threads might be of some help.
If you are going to use clicks outside buttons or hotspots you need to be aware of the rollback side function.

viewtopic.php?f=51&t=57299
viewtopic.php?f=51&t=53333

But I would recommend to start with imagemap with hotspots.