how to disable all events ?

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#1

Hi all,

is there a way to disable all events and then enable them. In my app, when user clicks a button a box with information will occur over a tableview. I don’t want the user to be able to tap on tableview while the box is over it. I want him to be able to tap tableview only if he closed that box.

Regards

Abdul

#2

On an individual level, put a boolean in the button code to disable it.

On the global level, put a rectangle with alpha = 0.01 on top of the display, trap tap events and don’t pass them through.

#3

If you are using Storyboard or Composer, you could use an overlay scene for this.  But if not, simply make a rectangle the full size of the screen, make it the background of your box.  You can set it to .isVisible = false and (this is important) .isHitTestable = true then add both a touch and a tap handler to it that basically ignores the events.

local function ignoreTouchs()

     return true

end

local background = display.newRect(display.contentCenterX, display.contentCenterY, display.contentWidth, display.contentHeight)

background.isVisible = false

background.isHitTestable = true

background:addEventListener(“touch”, ignoreTouches)

background:addEventListener(“tap”, ignoreTouches)

or something like that.

#4

thanks all , i will give it try and come back to you with results :slight_smile:

#5

Thanks , I didn’t know about isHitTestable, I’ve been putting a near-zero alpha on top :slight_smile:

#6

thanks Rob, 

i tried your way and works perfectly , i appreciate you help :slight_smile:

thanks Paul as well for you help.

Regards

Abdul

#7

On an individual level, put a boolean in the button code to disable it.

On the global level, put a rectangle with alpha = 0.01 on top of the display, trap tap events and don’t pass them through.

#8

If you are using Storyboard or Composer, you could use an overlay scene for this.  But if not, simply make a rectangle the full size of the screen, make it the background of your box.  You can set it to .isVisible = false and (this is important) .isHitTestable = true then add both a touch and a tap handler to it that basically ignores the events.

local function ignoreTouchs()

     return true

end

local background = display.newRect(display.contentCenterX, display.contentCenterY, display.contentWidth, display.contentHeight)

background.isVisible = false

background.isHitTestable = true

background:addEventListener(“touch”, ignoreTouches)

background:addEventListener(“tap”, ignoreTouches)

or something like that.

#9

thanks all , i will give it try and come back to you with results :slight_smile:

#10

Thanks , I didn’t know about isHitTestable, I’ve been putting a near-zero alpha on top :slight_smile:

#11

thanks Rob, 

i tried your way and works perfectly , i appreciate you help :slight_smile:

thanks Paul as well for you help.

Regards

Abdul