how to add touch event to whole screen in Corona

[allenjones2003]

Hi,

im still kinda new to Corona but making some very good progress, im making a simple game and one part of the game involves an object moving from side to side in a loop at the top of the screen and i want to add a touch even so that when anywhere on the screen is touched it stops the loop and the object then falls ( i already have all the physics code in place just struggling with this bit!)

any help would be very appreciated!

many thanks!
Allen

[Jay Jennings]

If you have a background image you can put the touch on that:

bgImage:addEventListener("touch", bgImageTouched)

... where bgImageTouched is the function to be called when the image was touched.

Or, with no background image try something like:

Runtime:addEventListener("touch", screenTouched)

... where screenTouched is the function to be called when anywhere on the screen was touched.

Jay Jennings

[allenjones2003]

Originally Posted by Jay Jennings

If you have a background image you can put the touch on that:

bgImage:addEventListener("touch", bgImageTouched)

... where bgImageTouched is the function to be called when the image was touched.

Or, with no background image try something like:

Runtime:addEventListener("touch", screenTouched)

... where screenTouched is the function to be called when anywhere on the screen was touched.

Jay Jennings

Hi Jay,

sorry for the delay but haven't been near a computer for a couple days and just getting back into this, i've added the Runtime:addEventListener("touch", screenTouched) code as the background will be covered with other objects so wouldn't be much use adding the touch event to it.. but nothing happens when I click the simulator anywhere on screen, does it need to be at the beggining of the code or do i need to add any other functions ??

thanks for your help!
Allen