EGP touch screen acts odd when parented

[deathking61]

Describe the bug
when you parent an egp touch screen it doesn't act as intended

To Reproduce
Steps to reproduce the behavior:

1. launch gmod
2. if you have an egp touch screen spawn it / wire it
3. parent it how ever you want to another prop
4. press and hold E (it should spam)

Expected behavior
on mine its supposed to allow me to hold down E to use it and it would normally allow it to be used once UNTIL i let go of my use key to use it again but doing this parenting thing to a prop or another entity causes issues

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[deathking61]

mind you in the video this is parented to anything this spam happens if its not it works fine.

[deathking61]

ok then so im going to guess you guys wont fix this? whats the point of being able to parent everything else in wiremod but this? kinda need to be fixed.

[thegrb93]

Parenting funk is usually source engine issues we can't help. Just avoid parenting it.

[deathking61]

From what I'm told by people who understand wiremod code it's an issue with wiremod itself so "just avoid parenting it" isn't going to work. But ya know thank you for breaking wiremod more. Tanke it easy

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[deathking61]

what i mean is as of late i talked to the devs of gmod about this months ago (auto corrected the last response my bad) but according to them its your addon not gmod so one of you is lying to me and just dont wanna fix it On Mon, Jun 30, 2025 at 9:34 AM Mr. Collins ***@***.***> wrote:

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From what I'm told by people who understand wiremod code it's an issue with wiremod itself so "just avoid parenting it" isn't going to work. But ya know thank you for breaking wiremod more. Tanke it easy On Sun, Jun 29, 2025, 10:58 AM thegrb93 ***@***.***> wrote: > *thegrb93* left a comment (wiremod/wire#3371) > <#3371 (comment)> > > Parenting funk is usually source engine issues we can't help. Just avoid > parenting it. > > — > Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub > <#3371 (comment)>, > or unsubscribe > <https://github.com/notifications/unsubscribe-auth/AE5WDEDJ73E52VPD7I35M5T3GALMBAVCNFSM6AAAAAB7YGS2QWVHI2DSMVQWIX3LMV43OSLTON2WKQ3PNVWWK3TUHMZTAMJWHA3DAOJVG4> > . > You are receiving this because you authored the thread.Message ID: > ***@***.***> >

[Denneisk]

#2473 (comment)

The child entity inherits(?) the UseType of the parent, which in most cases is 0 (CONTINUOUS_USE). The parent object could be modified to enable SIMPLE_USE (expected behaviour) but this might have issues in overriding intended functionality of other entities that have a different UseType. Not sure what the best course of action is from here.

[deathking61]

There a way to allow the parenting to a touchscreen? This way people could use them on moving objects.

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On Tue, Aug 19, 2025, 8:39 AM Denneisk ***@***.***> wrote: Closed #3371 <#3371> as duplicate. — Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub <#3371 (comment)>, or unsubscribe <https://github.com/notifications/unsubscribe-auth/AE5WDEHZP7SZC4AS7W43HA33OMZLTAVCNFSM6AAAAAB7YGS2QWVHI2DSMVQWIX3LMV45UABCJFZXG5LFIV3GK3TUJZXXI2LGNFRWC5DJN5XDWMJZGIZDMMZXG42TANA> . You are receiving this because you authored the thread.Message ID: ***@***.***>