limit to one touch vs multi?

Leanne

my game is done (!)...well...except for a huge problem that i can't figure out how to solve. each level has an increasing number of puzzles to choose from. when a level is unlocked, all puzzles in the level are unlocked so that the user can decide which puzzle to do first. the user sees a screen with a "badge" representing each puzzle. Tap on a badge, get to the puzzle. BUT if the user taps on two badges at the same time, both puzzles get launched and it is all royally messed up! So, the question is...
Can I somehow restrict the device from only registering one tap vs. multiple taps when an certain actor is present?

Leanne

try if touch is pressed and device.touch.count = 0

see if that works

cheers

tried, but it didn't work. I think because at the time of touching each "badge," the touch count is 0, because the touches are happening at the same time.

Leanne

you are so helpful. thank you. before you posted that i actually went with the first suggestion that added a manual change attribute device.touch.count to 1, if touched and device.touch.count=0. not sure why, but it worked! now to apply it throughout and get this project out!

eoin

I can confirm that the second method is working best for me.
faster to code into 100 items

eoin

nope it doesn't work on the ipad adhoc version, the first method must be the one!

eoin

neither of these things work if you are constraining the X+Y mouse positions for a drag drop game. As soon as you change the boolean to false it stops dragging the item.

I need a drag and drop game where you can only drag one item (at any one time) ,
out of a possible 5 items.

Nightmare trying to get something the works solid.

-Timo-

make an actor and constrain it to touch1 X and Y. make another and constrain it with touch2 X and Y. dont know if this will work with your problem but this is a way to know if its touch 1 or 2.

eoin

I agree that would be a really nice way to do it, but imagine how hard that is going to be to scale up for a game with hundreds of dragable items.

eoin

I need Drag Exclusivity

-Timo-

what is your problem? what do you need to do? do you want to move any actor when pressing with any touch? (touch1/ 2/ 3/ 4/ 5/ etc)

eoin

5 actors with drag ability are loaded onto screen , when one is picked up via touch1,
the others become unresponsive to touch. - This is what i need, is it possible in GS?

Multi touch, drag, constrain

eoin

dont want the user to be able to have access to a touch 2-5

eoin

I want to reopen this thread.
http://forums.gamesalad.com/discussion/11669/how-to-single-drag-an-actor-when-multitouch