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Force Touch Events? - Ropeburn - Feb 4, 2011 12:24 PM
I can successfully overload and print out the values from:
touchesBegan:
touchesEnded:
touchesMoved:
When none of the touches are moving, there are no events generated. Is there anyway to force an update or get a list of all touches even if the touches are not in motion. I would like to know where all the touches are on every update frame of my game.
RE: Force Touch Events? - ThemsAllTook - Feb 4, 2011 12:55 PM
It's advisable to keep your own list of active touches. Add to the list in -touchesBegan:, compare pointers to figure out which one(s) you're dealing with in -touchesMoved:, and remove from the list in -touchesEnded: and -touchesCancelled:. This is really a bare necessity of processing touch events; unless I'm mistaken, when -touchesMoved: called, only touches that actually moved are passed to it. If there are active touches that didn't move, they won't be in its list.
RE: Force Touch Events? - Ropeburn - Feb 4, 2011 01:13 PM
I'll have to try that, but there is problem.
if you push finger #1 down and hold it down (no motion), you'll get a begin touch event. Pressing finger #2 down goes not generate any event until finger #1 moves.
What I'd like to do is capture all the fingers that are down and I don't see how that is possible even if I starting tracking.
RE: Force Touch Events? - EvolPenguin - Feb 4, 2011 01:28 PM
That doesn't seem correct, it should generate another beganTouches event. Can you post your code for those functions (used the code tags to get it formatted nicely)?
Alex
RE: Force Touch Events? - Ropeburn - Feb 4, 2011 03:03 PM
Not sure what the code tags are, hope you dont mind. I've posted the three functions I'm using to capture the events. I believe these are standard implementations, but could be wrong. You can drop this into a iPad GLES project, watch the console and the following will happens.
Only the first finger down will generate a begin event.
Only the first finger will generate an end event.
No other finger will generate any event until the first finger moves.
I would love to get begin, motion and end events for any and all fingers. Seems odd that I can't.
Code:
//---------------------------------------------------------------------
// touchesBegan
//---------------------------------------------------------------------
- (void) touchesBegan: (NSSet*) touches withEvent: (UIEvent*) event
{
NSSet *allTouches = [event allTouches];
printf("Begin Touch: ");
for (UITouch *touch in allTouches)
{
if (touch.phase == UITouchPhaseBegan)
{
CGPoint location = [touch locationInView: self];
printf("(%5.2f %5.2f), ",location.x,location.y);
}
}
printf("\n");
}
//---------------------------------------------------------------------
// touchesMoved
//---------------------------------------------------------------------
- (void) touchesMoved: (NSSet*) touches withEvent: (UIEvent*) event
{
NSSet *allTouches = [event allTouches];
printf("Move Touch: ");
for (UITouch *touch in allTouches)
{
if (touch.phase == UITouchPhaseMoved)
{
CGPoint location = [touch locationInView: self];
printf("(%5.2f %5.2f), ",location.x,location.y);
}
}
printf("\n");
}
//---------------------------------------------------------------------
// touchesEnded
//---------------------------------------------------------------------
- (void) touchesEnded: (NSSet*) touches withEvent: (UIEvent*) event
{
NSSet *allTouches = [event allTouches];
printf("End Touch: ");
for (UITouch *touch in allTouches)
{
if (touch.phase == UITouchPhaseEnded)
{
CGPoint location = [touch locationInView: self];
printf("(%5.2f %5.2f), ",location.x,location.y);
}
}
printf("\n");
}RE: Force Touch Events? - EvolPenguin - Feb 4, 2011 03:38 PM
I formatted your code using the correct tags. Please use them when posting code. When I get a chance I'll check out the code to see if I can figure out what's going on.
Alex
RE: Force Touch Events? - Ropeburn - Feb 4, 2011 03:51 PM
Thanks Alex.
RE: Force Touch Events? - reubert - Feb 4, 2011 06:08 PM
This sounds kind of familiar, I believe I have struck it before, but can't remember exactly what the issue was.
You have setMultipleTouchEnabled:YES on your view right?
RE: Force Touch Events? - Ropeburn - Feb 4, 2011 08:02 PM
Yes, the multi touch flag is set by default when you have XCode create a GLES project.
RE: Force Touch Events? - KittyMac - Feb 4, 2011 08:16 PM
(Feb 4, 2011 08:02 PM)Ropeburn Wrote: Yes, the multi touch flag is set by default when you have XCode create a GLES project.
I dropped your code into the EAGLView.m of a new OpenGLES project and... it worked just fine.
Code:
[Session started at 2011-02-04 22:15:02 -0500.]
// SINGLE TOUCH
Begin Touch: (363.00 477.00),
Move Touch: (348.00 509.00),
Move Touch: (348.00 508.00),
End Touch: (348.00 508.00),
// TWO TOUCHES
Begin Touch: (291.00 512.00), (477.00 512.00),
Move Touch: (291.00 513.00), (477.00 511.00),
Move Touch: (288.00 523.00), (480.00 501.00),
Move Touch: (287.00 523.00), (481.00 501.00),
Move Touch: (287.00 522.00), (481.00 502.00),RE: Force Touch Events? - Ropeburn - Feb 4, 2011 08:54 PM
Hmm, thats good news and what I would expect. However, this what I get when I drop it into a new project.
Begin Touch: (597.00 749.00), // finger #1 down
Move Touch: (596.00 747.00),
Move Touch: (597.00 747.00),
Move Touch: (598.00 747.00),
Move Touch: (598.00 748.00), // finger #2 down
Move Touch: (598.00 749.00),
Move Touch: (598.00 750.00),
Move Touch: (107.00 756.00), (599.00 750.00), // finger #1 moving
Move Touch: (107.00 775.00), (600.00 749.00),
Move Touch: (600.00 748.00),
Move Touch: (109.00 794.00), (601.00 748.00),
Move Touch: (107.00 810.00), (602.00 748.00),
Move Touch: (105.00 824.00), (603.00 748.00),
Move Touch: (99.00 856.00), (604.00 748.00),
Move Touch: (605.00 748.00),
Move Touch: (97.00 860.00), (606.00 748.00),
Move Touch: (96.00 860.00), (606.00 749.00),
Move Touch: (606.00 750.00),
Move Touch: (603.00 751.00),
End Touch: (603.00 751.00), // finger #1 off
RE: Force Touch Events? - Ropeburn - Feb 4, 2011 09:08 PM
Ok, I believe I have found the issue. I did go back once again and check to see if I had enabled multi touch, and I had not. It appears that it is not automatically set as I had thought. I am sorry for wasting everyones time. Thanks for the help.
T.
setMultipleTouchEnabled:YES
RE: Force Touch Events? - omarmaris - Feb 9, 2011 11:47 PM
setMultipleTouchEnabled:YES is your answer..
Kind Regards
Upps sorry You already found the answer
sorry to not to read whole replies...