# How to move pad with touch

**URL:** <https://discourse.processing.org/t/how-to-move-pad-with-touch/22506>\
**Category:** Coding Questions\
**Created:** [July 9, 2020, 1:32pm UTC](https://discourse.processing.org/t/how-to-move-pad-with-touch/22506 "2020-07-09T13:32:21Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![bismarck](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/c67d28/32.png) [@bismarck](https://discourse.processing.org/u/bismarck)\
**Post date:** [July 9, 2020, 1:32pm UTC](https://discourse.processing.org/t/how-to-move-pad-with-touch/22506/1 "2020-07-09T13:32:21Z")

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```auto
let position1 = 100;
let position2 = 100;

function setup() {
  createCanvas(400, 400);
}

function draw() {
  background(220);
  
  rect(0,position2,10,100);
  rect(width-10,position1,10,100);
  
  if(mouseX > width/2){
    position1= mouseY;
  }
  if(mouseX < width/2){
    position2= mouseY;
  }
  
}

```

i want to do the same thing but on a mobile service but i don’t know how to do that

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**Author:** ![josephh](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/user_avatar/discourse.processing.org/josephh/32/210_2.png) [@josephh](https://discourse.processing.org/u/josephh)\
**Post date:** [July 9, 2020, 6:43pm UTC](https://discourse.processing.org/t/how-to-move-pad-with-touch/22506/2 "2020-07-09T18:43:45Z")

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Hi,

Check out the touch section on the p5js reference :

- [https://p5js.org/reference/#/p5/touches](https://p5js.org/reference/#/p5/touches)

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**Author:** ![bismarck](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/c67d28/32.png) [@bismarck](https://discourse.processing.org/u/bismarck)\
**Post date:** [July 10, 2020, 10:00pm UTC](https://discourse.processing.org/t/how-to-move-pad-with-touch/22506/3 "2020-07-10T22:00:43Z")

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thank you i have done