Touches on demand

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• oleg Member

  July 2018

  give an example of use?
  

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• SinisterSoft Maintainer

  July 2018

  Just track them with those to variables you can access at any time.

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• totebo Member

  July 2018

  The use case is that I am allowing an animation to be fast forwarded if the screen is pressed. This works, but if the player is already pressing the screen when I add the event listeners, they have to release then tap again for the fast forward to trigger. I'd like to check if any touches are active before I add the event listeners, so I can start the fast forward "on the fly".
  
  Of course I could always be listening to the touches, but wondered if Gideros keeps the touches somewhere without my adding the event listener?

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• Apollo14 Member

  July 2018 edited July 2018

  totebo said:

  The use case is that I am allowing an animation to be fast forwarded if the screen is pressed. This works, but if the player is already pressing the screen when I add the event listeners, they have to release then tap again for the fast forward to trigger. I'd like to check if any touches are active before I add the event listeners, so I can start the fast forward "on the fly".
  
  Of course I could always be listening to the touches, but wondered if Gideros keeps the touches somewhere without my adding the event listener?

  (I'm not sure if it helps, probably I didn't understand your question correctly)
  http://docs.giderosmobile.com/reference/gideros/Sprite/Event.TOUCHES_BEGIN
  touch.id: (number) the id of current touch. This number is 1 if this is a first touch, 2 if it is a second, etc.
  allTouches: (table) lua table containing previously described touch table with x, y, rx, ry and id properties for all touches that are currently on device.
  

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• Apollo14 Member

  July 2018 edited July 2018

  duplicate comment

  > Newcomers roadmap: from where to start learning Gideros
  "What one programmer can do in one month, two programmers can do in two months." - Fred Brooks
  “The more you do coding stuff, the better you get at it.” - Aristotle (322 BC)

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• totebo Member

  July 2018

  I meant, is there a way of getting the currently active touches without using events?

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• SinisterSoft Maintainer

  July 2018

  Add the events to the stage at the beginning of your code - have them always active.
  

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• keszegh Member

  July 2018

  you have to write your own touch managment like @SinisterSoft says, it's not hard. it's a design choice of gideros, similar to other game-oriented event-based apis.

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• totebo Member

  July 2018

  Fair play. I was hoping the touches were available anyway, to avoid having a redundant eventDispatcher running all the time.

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• antix Member

  July 2018

  As @SinisterSoft said, just have the event listener present from the start. You could have a flag called animPlaying maybe and then check that and if true fast forward the animation.

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• keszegh Member

  July 2018

  btw i think it would be a more expected/natural behaviour that you need to touch the screen after the anim starts to fastforward, as otherwise the user can easily ffd accidentally by having already touched the screen when the anim starts.

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  Fragmenter - animated loop machine and IKONOMIKON - the memory game

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• totebo Member

  July 2018

  All good comments, thanks guys. Blimey, quite a bit of activity on the old forum nowadays!

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