mouse click movement

I'm trying to figure out what the best way is to let my player sprite move to where the Mouse is.

What would be really helpful is a behaviour that will allow me to set the player movement speed as well as letting him move to the current mouse.x and mouse.y I know there must be a way, I am just too noob to figure it out it seems. If I set it to current mouse X or Y with position it jumps there instead of moving towards it. I have coded something klike this before saying:
X = X++1 until the mouse is let go but how do I set it in C2?
I suppose I could use 'On Every Tick' but that seems kinda wasteful?

How possible will it be to also restrict the Y movement?
So lets say I click on a co ordinate the player will move towards the x co-ordinate (left and right only) and not move up or down at all?

There must be a way but I would maybe think that it's such a common control interface in multiple games that it will have a behaviour dedicated to this kind of movement.

Edited by Havok - 15 Sep 2011 at 9:18pm

You can still do

*Mouse: Left button is down -> set X to Sprite.X+5

or

*Mouse: Left button is down -> set X to Sprite.X+50*dt

and for sprite going to mouse position you could do

*Mouse: Left button is down -> set X to lerp(Sprite.X,Mouse.X, 0.01)

Edited by shinkan - 15 Sep 2011 at 10:26pm

8dir following a mouse looks kind of odd.

The rotating is cool. It points in the direction it's moving.

Thanks for the help so far guys.
Kyatric that's almost there I reckon. It's just the "shaking" that's not ideal. I'll have to try edit it a bit more. Thanks a lot for this.

Ashley, I'll try the Bullet behavior as well. I think Construct 2 could use a behavior that simplifies this. I am trying to use Construct 2 as a type of point and click adventure game. Having behaviors that helps in this area would be a huge boon to me and I'm sure many others.