James Newton wrote: > I have created a series of pygame sprites. Visually, these sprites > represent counters and may overlap. I want to determine which sprite > the user clicked on. > > This seems to me to be a fairly standard feature of a game interface, so > I imagine that there is already a standard technique for achieving it.
I would think so too, but a quick look at the docs and tutorials didn't turn up anything.... > I'd like to start at the top-most sprite and work backwards > through the sprites in the group, and then use "break" to stop as soon > as I find a sprite whose rect collides with the mouse position. > > In my code below, I've tried replacing the line... > > for vCounter in counters: # the pygame.sprite.RenderPlain() group > > ... with: > > vRange = range(len(counters)) > vRange.reverse() > for ii in vRange: > vCounter = counters[ii] > > However this results in an error: > > #TypeError: 'Group' object is unindexable I guess counters is iterable but not a sequence. Try this: for vCounter in reversed(list(counters)): Kent _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
