how to get mouse input in python and pygame

Question

I'm trying to get mouse button input in pygame but it doesn't work. I've tried

if pygame.mouse.get_pressed() == True:
    "do something"

,

if pygame.mouse.get_pressed() == (1,0,0):
    "do something"

,

if pygame.mouse.get_pressed()[0]:
    "do something"

...

I think everything from the docs but it does nothing and the if pygame.mouse.get_pressed() == (1,0,0): always worked before. (if mouse_pos == (PlayCoordsx, PlayCoordsy) and pygame.mouse.get_pressed() == (1, 0, 0):) Can someone tell me what I'm doing wrong?

Stiffo · Accepted Answer · 2015-08-11 11:01:43Z

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To begin with, it is not recommended to use mouse.get_pressed(). Instead use event.get() and check what the events are. Eg.

while ... # This is your main loop
  # get all recent events
  events = pygame.event.get()

  # proceed events
  for event in events:

    # handle MOUSEBUTTONUP, ie. click release
    if event.type == pygame.MOUSEBUTTONUP:
      pos = pygame.mouse.get_pos()

      #Do your stuff

answered Aug 11, 2015 at 11:01

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sloth Over a year ago

it is not recommended to use mouse.get_pressed(): Why?

Stiffo Over a year ago

Not unless you absolutely have to, because you will need to start using flags and stuff to compensate for the multitude of triggers it will generate. And you are likely to miss a lot of presses as you wont have a queue of inputs. Just use get event in the main loop instead, it's more elegant and less error prone. Even the pygame docks for get_pressed() says it's better to use event.get() instead

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