creating a fire button?

this is an iDevice game
I have a fire button, and i want it to (when touch = pressed) tell another actor to initiate an animation and spawn an actor (or basically shoot the projectile)
how do i do this? I have only gotten this to work using keys.
I have a fire button, and i want it to (when touch = pressed) tell another actor to initiate an animation and spawn an actor (or basically shoot the projectile)
how do i do this? I have only gotten this to work using keys.
Comments
Sorry for the off topic post, but I did not want to create a separate thread and PMs don't seem to work for me.