A behavior that detects a swipe being done on the screen, and that gives you information about it, including the direction and the length.

Authors and contributors to this community extension: E1e5en.

A behavior that detects a swipe being done on the screen, and that gives you information about it, including the direction and the length.

To begin, attach this behavior to any object.

Settings are :

• Time (s) - duration of the swipe (default value is 0.2s);
• Min Length (px) - the minimum length that the swipe must have to be considered (default value 100 px).

Use the condition to check if a swipe was done. Then you can use the expressions to get the swipe values:

• StartPointX, StartPointY (Expression) - coordinates of the point where the swipe starts,
• EndPointX, EndPointY (Expression) - coordinates of the swipe end point,
• Length (Expression) - the length of the swipe, in pixels,
• DirectionX, DirectionY (Expression) - values ​​of the swipe direction vector,
• DirectionNormX, DirectionNormY (Expression) - values ​​of the normalized vector of the swipe direction,
• Angle (Expression) - the value of the angle of the direction vector to the zero angle in range (-180, 180),
• Average4Direction (String Expression) - the direction value for 4 sides (UP, DOWN, LEFT, RIGHT). In this case, the “circle” is divided into 4 segments of 90 degrees,
• Average8Direction (String Expression) - the direction value for 8 sides (UP, DOWN, LEFT, RIGHT, UP-LEFT, UP-RIGHT, DOWN-LEFT, DOWN-RIGHT). In this case, the “circle” is divided into 8 segments of 45 degrees.

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