hot to disable touch handling in CCLayer in cocos2d

Question

I've got a CCLayer subclass i'm using to display some sprites and to show some animations. Also it has a CCMenu with some items. When user selects some of the menu item i want to run an animation and then to show another scene. But i want user not to be able to touch anything on the screen while animation is running.

Of course, i can just disable handling touches in my callbacks, but maybe there is more simple way - just to disable all touch handling for a while ?

You may want to look at this answer: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1101965/how-can-i-disable-the-touch-detection — lorenzo, Jan 28 '13 at 09:14

score 3 · Answer 1 · answered Nov 08 '12 at 03:36

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Disable touch dispatcher before animation running and enable touch dispatcher after animation stopped. Here is the code snippet:

[[CCDirector sharedDirector] touchDispatcher].dispatchEvents = NO;
CCAnimation* animation = [CCAnimation animationWithFrame:@"numberexplode" frameCount:5 delay:0.2];
CCAnimate* animate = [CCAnimate actionWithAnimation:animation];
CCCallBlock* completion = [CCCallBlock actionWithBlock:^{
    [[CCDirector sharedDirector] touchDispatcher].dispatchEvents = YES;
}];
CCSequence* sequence = [CCSequence actions:animate, completion, nil];
[self runAction:sequence];

answered Nov 08 '12 at 03:36

Gong Pengjun

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I am not getting `touchDispatcher` method. What can be the issue. I am working with iOS6. – NeverHopeless May 23 '13 at 07:28
you may replace [[CCDirector sharedDirector] touchDispatcher] with [CCTouchDispatcher sharedDispatcher] – Gong Pengjun Jul 10 '13 at 13:54

score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Jan 08 '11 at 18:22

You want to look at the CCTouchDispatcher singleton class. If you add a targeted touch handler that swallows touches (and does nothing) then you won't get any touches handled. As far as I can tell there's no way to totally disable touches.

Alternatively you can make a new CCLayer that's on top of everything else (I think z order really high will do this), and make it clear, and have it do nothing with touches.

hope that helps.

hot to disable touch handling in CCLayer in cocos2d

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