How do I detect which direction a sprite is being dragged?

Hi, sorry if this has been answered somewhere, I couldn't find it with the searches I put in..

I'm trying to detect if a dragged sprite is basically being dragged either to the left, right, up or down.

So as an example imagine a sprite with 5 frames:

0: dot

1: right arrow

2: left arrow

3: up arrow

4: down arrow

If you drag the sprite to the right, I'd want to detect that and tell the sprite to go to frame 1

alternatively if you drag the sprite up, to go to frame 3 etc.

Any advice or tips would be greatly appreciated!

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That's a pretty nifty way of going about it, I'll play around with that in my project thanks!

You can always check a sprites position X and Y.

You can also check angle facing and if a bullet you can check angle of motion.

Any of those can be used to determine which direction a sprite is moving or will move next.

I was trying to figure it out via X and Y but wasn't sure how to do it relatively to the sprites current position.

I'll try making it a bullet and see if that is any better than the way MPPLant suggested, thanks