love.touchpressed doesnt work

[bigbruhh0]

hello everyone,please tell me how to implement screen press check
I found this piece of code somewhere on the forum, but did not quite understand how it works:
it already works and reads screen clicks or is it just functions that I have to call directly in the update section
in this case, I do not understand how to call these functions

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local touches = {}

function love.touchpressed(id, x, y)
  touches[id] = {x, y}
end

function love.touchmoved(id, x, y)
  touches[id][1] = x
  touches[id][2] = y
end

function love.touchreleased(id, x, y)
  touches[id] = nil
end

function howManyTouches()
  return #touches
end

i tried checking this way in update section,but touched always is equal to false:

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local zxc = howManyTouches()
if zxc>0
	then
		touched=true
	else
		touched=false
	end

im newbee in lua,so its hard to understand to me
before that I worked only on a game maker, I did not think about such things there xD
sorry for my bad english btw, its not my main language

[pgimeno]

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function howManyTouches()
  return #touches
end

Try this:

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function howManyTouches()
  local howMany = 0
  for k in pairs(touches) do
    howMany = howMany + 1
  end
  return howMany
end

#table is valid for tables that contain consecutive numeric indices starting with 1, and touch ids are not numeric.

[bigbruhh0]

Try this:
#table is valid for tables that contain consecutive numeric indices starting with 1, and touch ids are not numeric.

i changed to this, but is still doesnt working
where i should to place all of this functions?

[bigbruhh0]

oh,ok looks like I figured out how to do it, but there are still some problems with counting touches

[darkfrei]

Works fine
Clicker 10

[bigbruhh0]

Works fine
Clicker 10

wow thanks there is a lot of code here but i will try to study
can you please tell me , what am i doing wrong?
i just want to know this for future
out of despair, I already tried to write to the matrix by interpretation into string,but anyway i see message that index equal nil

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touches={}
function love.touchpressed(id, x, y)
  idd=tostring(id)
  touches[idd][1]=x
  touches[idd][2]=y
  touches[idd][3]=0
  touch_count=touch_count+1
end
function love.touchmoved(id, x, y)
  idd=tostring(id)
  touches[idd][1]=x
  touches[idd][2]=y
end
function love.touchreleased(id, x, y)
  idd=tostring(id)
  touches[idd]=nil

end

[darkfrei]

wow thanks there is a lot of code here but i will try to study
can you please tell me , what am i doing wrong?

https://love2d.org/wiki/love.touch.getTouches

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function love.draw()
	local touches = love.touch.getTouches()
	for i, id in pairs(touches) do
		local x, y = love.touch.getPosition(id)
		love.graphics.circle("fill", x, y, 20)
		love.graphics.print('x: '..x..' y: '..y, x+20, y+20)
	end
end

https://love2d.org/wiki/love.touchpressed
The id is light userdata id https://love2d.org/wiki/light_userdata

[darkfrei]

So ids are userdata null and userdata 0x00()1

[bigbruhh0]

So ids are userdata null and userdata 0x00()1

thank you
can you answer one more question please?
in love.touchpressed i wrote this :

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touches_id[id]=0

and i want to draw this variable when im touching the screen :

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 for i, id in ipairs(touches) do
        local x, y = love.touch.getPosition(id)
        love.graphics.circle("fill", x, y, 20)
    love.graphics.print('x: '..x..' y: '..y, x+20, y-10)
    love.graphics.print('touch_id: '..touch_id[id], x, y+20)
    end

but i got error: attempt to index global 'touch_id' a nil value

as I understand, pressing the screen occurs after drawing, how can I fix this?

I will attach the file, but there is a lot of unnecessary code, everything you need is in main.lua

[MrFariator]

In that code snippet, it seems you have written "touch_id" in place of "touches_id". "touch_id" is not defined, so it errors when you try to index it like a table.

Additionally, "ipairs" is intended for looping through tables with consuctive numeric indices, similar to the # operator. For this situation, you'd want to use "pairs", which loops through the contents of a table regardless of the type of indices involved, though the order is not guaranteed to be what you might expect.