How to make an object move towards the cursor?

[Jason]

Okay so I've decided to learn a few new techniques with GM8 (Finally made the full transition, and bought the Pro edition)

What I want to do is make it so an object will move towards the mouse cursor once I click somewhere on the screen, I'd assume it would be a move towards event, and I tried cursor.x and cursor.y, as well as mouse.x and mouse.y but I'm probably way off, since it doesn't recognise either of those variables.

Another question, I'd like to know a good place to start learning GML properly, we've just started it in college, and I can do a few basics, but the course seems to be moving too slow for my liking, so I'm gonna' speed the process up, any help?

Cheers.

 

[Jason]

Gonna' bump this since it's been almost a week with no answer D:

 

[bacon]

I dont know if this if this is what you are looking for:



mouse_check_button(numb) Returns whether the mouse button is currently down (use as values mb_none, mb_left, mb_middle, or mb_right).


mouse_x X-coordinate of the mouse in the room. Cannot be changed.
mouse_y Y-coordinate of the mouse in the room. Cannot be changed.


Again, this was ripped straight from the tutorial so I do not know. D:

But I guessing you could check the mouse X & Y location along with if the mouse button is down then move it to the the variable's value.


Also, I found the best way to learn GM is through the tutorials themselves. They are super useful and handy and give you some good pointers and basics. I honestly dont know how long you have been using GM, so I apologize if you have already check these out. Im sort of new to GM. x: