How to detect when a sprite is not clicked?

A better rephrased question is:

What's the best way to detect a click that isn't on a sprite?

Background:

I have sprites that pop up and the user is supposed to click on them. I'm trying to determine when the user misses clicking on the sprite.

Possible solutions:

• Comparing every click with the left/top/right/bottom boundaries of every sprite displayed. But, this seems excessive and I feel that there is a better way. I just haven't found it yet.
• I added a click detection for the background layer, but unfortunately, that is still triggered when the sprite is clicked.

Other strategies tried:

• Adding an inverse or else to an On Object Clicked trigger is not possible.
• Tried adding a local variable to determine if the currently triggered click was on the sprite, but unfortunately doesn't appear to work well within triggers because they aren't called with the ticks.

Notes:

• Testing only in Chrome and with C2 r154.
• After figuring this out, I will also have to do this for touch events, but that should be simple enough.

Hey there!

Have you tried this?

<img src="http://jjlistrandomstuff.net16.net/Screens/On_miscklick.JPG" border="0" />

Should be something similar for touch.

Hey there!

Have you tried this?

<img src="http://jjlistrandomstuff.net16.net/Screens/On_miscklick.JPG" border="0" />

Should be something similar for touch.

I see the pic's URL you are trying to show is called "on_misclick" and that does sound promising. Unfortunately, I can't see the pic. ;]

Is this from another plugin?

• Mouse On Left button Clicked
• (INVERT) Cursor is over Sprite
• > Actions

Oh, that's weird :O

Nah, just 1 event with basic C2 logics)

Yeah, what Cow said :P

Thank you both very much! That's exactly what I was looking for!

Btw, it was a pretty cool effect seeing text created every tick and being faded with the fade behavior. So, in order to make sure this misclick event is only called once, I added a boolean variable. Here's the full working sample that I am using:

Download "on_misclick" solution (event called once)