I have a button that I long press it inorder to activate a function, and i want to activate this funciton when the mouse leave the button erea (will holding the mouse). holding the mouse doesn't trigger the _on_mouse_exited signal of the button, so i want to add a area2D on top of the button in order to trigger a _on_mouse_exited signal will holding the mouse key. But the button and the area2D are interfere with each other...
is there a way to work around it?
thx
var _can_activate = false
func _on_Button_button_up():
_can_activate = false
func _on_Button_button_down():
_can_activate = true
func _holdMouseFunction():
#### insert function here
func _on_Area_2D_mouse_exited():
if Input.is_action_pressed("mouse_right") and _can_activate:
_holdMouseFunction()SnapCracklins
the "func _on_Area_2D_mouse_exited()" will not get called, because the button and the area2D are located at the same spase, and it create same interference with how the mouse event work.
i have read that by tageling the "input-pickable" on and off, i can make the eara2d mouse event work. but then I break the button.
You can do something like this without an area.
extends Node2D
var but:Button
var but_rect:Rect2
var follower:Sprite
var lab:Label
var tim:Timer
func _input(event: InputEvent) -> void:
if event is InputEventMouseMotion \
and but.pressed \
and not but_rect.has_point(event.position):
if not follower:
follower = Sprite.new()
follower.texture = preload('res://icon.png')
add_child(follower)
follower.position = event.position
elif event is InputEventMouseButton \
and not event.is_pressed() and follower:
follower.queue_free()
follower = null
func _ready() -> void:
but = Button.new()
but.rect_size = Vector2(100, 40)
but.rect_position = Vector2.ONE * 100
but_rect = Rect2(but.rect_position, but.rect_size)
add_child(but)
but.connect('pressed', self, 'but_press')
lab = Label.new()
lab.rect_scale = Vector2.ONE * 5
lab.rect_position = Vector2(100, 200)
add_child(lab)
tim = Timer.new()
tim.one_shot = true
tim.wait_time = 1
add_child(tim)
tim.connect('timeout', self, 'tim_out')
func but_press():
lab.text = 'pressed'
tim.start()
func tim_out():
lab.text = ''duane it's seems a bit wasteful to run a check every time the mouse move, but it only for the UI so i think it's fine 
thx
you could also use a timer or count msecs/usecs and make a check every n units of time for if mouse was just moved.
