Move a Sprite horizontally without keyboard

nilskris

Hey! I want to make a Scratch game compatible on both desktop and phone. On the desktop version you use the arrow keys, and on the phone version you can press the left side or righ side of the screen respectively to make the Sprite move either left or right. I already know how to do the arrow keys, but is the latter do-able?

Any help would be appreciated!

mstone326

Yes, the later is doable just note that tapping the screen counts as a mouse down event. So you can't press multiple sprites at once with When this sprite clicked events. But definitely doable

chipm0nk

Yes, this is definitely doable;
To make the Sprite move on an i-Pad or phone, put this bit of code into the Sprite (unless you are making a side-scrolling game, in which case this will probably not work.)

when green flag clicked
forever
if <mouse down?> then
if <(mouse x) > (x position)> then 
change x by (5)  
else
change x by (-5)
end
end
end

To change the speed at which your sprite moves you can increase or decrease the values in the Change X blocks.
Hope this helps, and good luck with your project!

nilskris

chipm0nk wrote:
Yes, this is definitely doable;
To make the Sprite move on an i-Pad or phone, put this bit of code into the Sprite (unless you are making a side-scrolling game, in which case this will probably not work.)
when green flag clicked
forever
if <mouse down?> then
if <(mouse x) > (x position)> then 
change x by (5)  
else
change x by (-5)
end
end
end
To change the speed at which your sprite moves you can increase or decrease the values in the Change X blocks.
Hope this helps, and good luck with your project!

Fantastic! Thanks for the help.

chipm0nk

No problem, glad I could help you!

Ayaan-yay

umm well you can just add some arrow keys to your project and when the person presses on them it will go up, down, right or left

For example

when you press the arrow that's pointing up the sprite goes up

AbHiLoVe_10

how do i make a sprite move by itself without touching my keyborad left and right continusally without followin my other sprite

Last edited by AbHiLoVe_10 (April 6, 2024 23:29:32)

-Nether_Portal-

when green flag clicked
set [ foov] to [0]
forever
change x by (foo)
change [foo v] by (1)
end

DashDav

chipm0nk wrote:
Yes, this is definitely doable;
To make the Sprite move on an i-Pad or phone, put this bit of code into the Sprite (unless you are making a side-scrolling game, in which case this will probably not work.)
when green flag clicked
forever
if <mouse down?> then
if <(mouse x) > (x position)> then 
change x by (5)  
else
change x by (-5)
end
end
end
To change the speed at which your sprite moves you can increase or decrease the values in the Change X blocks.
Hope this helps, and good luck with your project!

One of my projects actually uses a very similar, albeit more complex code.

ThreeHP

In order to make this you can make an arrow sprite(right and left) and make another sprite move whenever one of the arrows are pressed

when this sprite clicked
broadcast [Move left/right v]

when I receive [Move left/right v]
move (-10/10) steps

Pickle1314

-Nether_Portal- wrote:

when green flag clicked
set [ foo] to [0]
forever
change x by (foo)
change [foo v] by (1)
end

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