Greetings lads

So I use Scratch on both laptop and desktop and have noticed that doing this block;

when this sprite clicked

detects when I tap the trackpad of my laptop while doing this bit of code:

when green flag clicked
forever
if <<touching [mousepointer] ?> and <mouse down?>> then

only detects if I press the trackpad down all the way.

I was wondering why this is as well as any ways to replicate ‘this sprite clicked’ for trackpad tapping detection.

I hope the code shows up properly, I'm on my phone rn. This is for all the students who want to silently play their clicker games while in class

This probably depends a lot on the OS and trackpad peripheral you are using

When you tap the trackpad, it probably emits both a mousedown and a mouseup event in the same tick. This changes back the <mouse down?> block to false before the loop repeats, but it doesn't prevent the “when this sprite clicked” block from triggering

idk if that works on your laptop, but you might be able to change the <mouse down?> block to true by double-tapping, but the second tap is longer (as when dragging something)