Mouse support

[david-pfx]

PS+ has mouse support which is fairly intensive: left and right buttons, down, up and drag. Each mouse event drops an object, which is rather different from how the keyboard works.

The code to do this is quite large and is embedded in the input subsystem, but not clearly delineated. P:S has been refactored, to the point where a merge is challenging, perhaps even impossible.

My preferred approach in PuzzleFab is to use the mouse to generate input events, like keystrokes, on the every object occupying the clicked location. Simpler code, but not at all PS+ compatible.

Thoughts?

[ClementSparrow]

The way PS and P:S are currently implemented, it seems much easier to do it like PS+: adding new objects. But I have not played with mouse support in PS+ so I'm not sure what is the best solution for game designers. So, PS+ has only 4 click objects (two by mouse buttons, times two states pressed/released) and one drag object with motion direction? Or 4 drag objects?

Another approach would be to mix objects and states, and to use tags to specify directions or button or state.