Best way to select (clone) actor sprite ?

[akhad]

I have a grid of 4x4 clone actors, Tile.0 through to Tile.16. What's the best way to click on a single actor and get it's clone index ? So far I've been using a `cursor` actor parented to the cursor, and detecting it's collision wth the clone Tiles, but this is proving a less than satisfactory method. Anyone have a more efficient method of getting a clone number simply from clicking on it ?

[DST]

For one, you could use a global integer variable.

On clone>mousebuttondown

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variable=cloneindex;

Then you could so something with that variable.

You can also make it an array, if you like (you can make any global variable an array in the variables window)
and clone>mousebuttondown

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variable[n]=cloneindex;
//or
variable[cloneindex]=cloneindex;

Then you can refer to that variable later by using:

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newvariable=variable[n];
//or
newvariable=variable[cloneindex];



It all depends on what you want to do with it.