SDL Mouse States

[RandomDever]

All I need is a boolean that is true if the left mouse button is down and false if the left mouse button is up.
I can't find it.
Please Help!

[pritam]

I can't give you an example by ready-to-go code, but you need to track the mouse states, something like this:

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bool lmbPressed = false; // lmb == left mouse button

if( g_Event.type == SDL_MOUSEBUTTONDOWN && SDL_BUTTON(SDL_GetMouseState(NULL,NULL)) == SDL_BUTTON_LEFT ) {
lmbPressed = true;
}

if( g_Event.type == SDL_MOUSEBUTTONUP ) {
lmbPressed = false;
}

[M_D_K]

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struct Mouse
{
        int dx, dy;
        int oldX, oldY;
        unsigned int buttons;
        unsigned int oldButtons;
};

in your input code put this somewhere.

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        SDL_PumpEvents();
        mouse.oldButtons = mouse.buttons;
        mouse.oldX = mouse.dx;
        mouse.oldY = mouse.dy;
        mouse.buttons = SDL_GetMouseState(&mouse.dx, &mouse.dy);

you can check for buttons by doing:

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bool mouseDown(int button)
{
        return currMouse(button) && (!oldMouse(button));
}
bool mouseStillDown(int button)
{
        return currMouse(button) && (oldMouse(button));
}

Same for checking if a button is up but in reverse.

where currMouse and oldMouse are defines:

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#define currMouse(x) ((mouse.buttons&SDL_BUTTON(x)) != 0)
#define oldMouse(x) ((mouse.oldButtons&SDL_BUTTON(x)) != 0)

[RandomDever]

OK I tried all of your solutions and they didn't fully work.
The only time the thang would update was when I triggered an event.
So I thought OK maybe I put the update function in the while loop that handles events.
I checked and it wasn't in there.
After toying around for 30 minutes I realized that the functions were reversed.
I had made the update() code handle events and the check() code handle the thangs update.
So in essence I had my events updated in the logic section and my logic updated in my events section.

Anyways thank for all of your solutions.