Can I make the children of a group not touchable

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Hi All,

I have a physics body with a touch listener and have grouped under it another image, which I don’t want to be touchable.

As it stands the child image which is bigger than the parent is triggering the touch event.
Can I switch this childs contribution to the touchable area of the group off.
Hope this makes sense.
Thanks
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This could work.

[code]

–image…
image.isTouchable = false --Assign whether the image should respond to touch events
–imageiWantToTouch
imageiWantToTouch.isTouchable = true --Assign whether the image should respond to touch events

–Then in your listener…

local function touched(event)
–if the image is touchable then execute required actions
if event.phase == “began” and event.target.isTouchable == true then
–do whatever
end

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Hi,

Thanks for the reply,

I have tried this but as soon as you group another image underneath an object with a touch listener
that image becomes touchable regardless.

What I am trying to do is to get the effect of a rolling ball by grouping a dirt texture underneath a physics body , translating and masking the dirt texture separately. This is all working fine except that It becomes touchable even when masked.

The hierarchy is as follows:

BallBody

BallImage BallDirtGroup( Display Group with Mask)
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Ball Dirt Image which is translated relative the the movement of the ballImage

I think I have hit a brick wall with this one…

Thanks
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