Detect if a Sprite is touched

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:bust_in_silhouette: Asked By freaki2010

I want an action to be executed when a sprite is clicked (with touch). I have tried to solve this with the following post (https://forum.godotengine.org/3825/check-if-sprite-self-is-clicked) but unfortunately it does not work as expected… It does not react to anything anymore. With my previous code I was able to capture at least a touch input on the whole screen.
Here is my code where the touch input on the hole screen works and how I built the scene.

extends Area2D

func _ready():
	pass # Replace with function body.

func _input(event: InputEvent) -> void:
	if event is InputEventScreenTouch and event.is_pressed():
		print("clicked")

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This scene

I want to instantiate the scene with the sprite into the main scene, where by pressing the sprite values should be changed.

Code of the main scene:

extends Node

onready var touches_label : Label = $Container/VBoxContainer/Touches

var click_count := 0.0

func _ready() -> void:
	update_touches_label()

func update_touches_label() -> void:
	touches_label.text = str(click_count)
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:bust_in_silhouette: Reply From: Krippi

Hey, I also had a problem that when I used touch, nothing ever happened.
I was able to solve it and it currently looks like this:

func _input(event):
   if event is InputEventScreenTouch and event.is_pressed():

Oh, I’m sorry I didn’t look at the translation again.
So the touch recognition sort of works… But only on the full screen. I want the sprite to only detect the touches.

freaki2010 | 2020-03-15 20:21

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:bust_in_silhouette: Reply From: Krippi

Oh okay then try this. Area2D has a node method called input_event(). Connect it.

func _input_event(viewport, event, shape_idx):

Now it finally worked!
I started a new project and just inserted the sprite and tested it. I guess that the container or something else in between sparked and therefore it didn’t work.
Thanks a lot for your help!

freaki2010 | 2020-03-16 08:55

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:bust_in_silhouette: Reply From: freaki2010

After a lot of research I finally found out why the sprite did not recognize the touch when a control node was added. To make the sprite recognize the touch you have to set the filter of the control node in the inspector under mouse to “Ignore”.

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