Mouse clicks and z-depth question

[mal99]

Hi - I'm new to GE and need help.

I'm trying to move a group of many small, identical actors in a fixed formation with a 'mouse down' on any of the actors. The obvious way is to make them all children of a filled frame actor and put this actor at a z-depth above the formation of small actors so it receives the 'mouse down' to initiate the move. But this does not work.

If the parent-child relationship is removed,the filled frame takes the mouse click and moves - but it does not take the formation of small actors with it.

Anyone got any ideas how to get round this problem

Thanks

Mal

[schnellboot]

it's a bug that childs are always on top of their parents

[skydereign]

It isn't a bug, just an attribute of using parent. The child actors share several variable similarities other than zdepth. But, there are things about using parent that can help. You might look at how this causes actor to stick using parent.
http://game-editor.com/forum/download/file.php?id=7595

Another solution, since it sounds like you don't want the actors to have a mouse button down event (the identical ones), just disable their mouse button down event. This will allow you to click the actor underneath them (so in your case the filled region).

[Jagmaster]

Another solution, since it sounds like you don't want the actors to have a mouse button down event (the identical ones), just disable their mouse button down event. This will allow you to click the actor underneath them (so in your case the filled region).

Cool, I did not know that!

[schnellboot]

me2, thanks