"hitTestPoint" in "TOUCH" events, not "MOUSE" events

Platypus

Guys,

In "button.lua" (in Gideros' included "Button" template):


the MOUSE function contains "hitTestPoint" (and "updateVisualState")

function Button:onMouseDown(event) if self:hitTestPoint(event.x, event.y) then self.focus = true self:updateVisualState(true) event:stopPropagation() end end

but the TOUCH function doesn't.

function Button:onTouchesBegin(event) if self.focus then event:stopPropagation() end end

Why is that?

I was going to use "onMouseDown" in my app, but maybe I should use "onTouchesBegin" instead - it seems to require less typing!

ar2rsawseen

Hello @Platypus
Touch events require same hit test point as mouse events. Actually even little more typing as they have touch table:

function SomeClass:onTouchesBegin(event) if self:hitTestPoints(event.touch.x, event.touch.y) then event:stopPropagation() end end

in Button class this is not required due to the fact that button already receives mouse event and touch event is only used to stop event propagation (everything underneath the button tree would not receive the event, a little optimization trick, that is not required anymore, since touch/mouse events were optimized).

Platypus

@Ar2rsawseen,
Thanks, mate.