Hello! I have a question if is it possible to simulate touching screen?
What I mean is some function that actually will do same as you touch screen (something like touch(x, y)) and will run all listeners that are on x/y. I’ve found similar topic, but there was no satisfying answers and I hope something changed since then.
Here is the topic:
https://forums.coronalabs.com/topic/34594-way-to-simulate-a-touch-even-in-code/
If you’re touch handler is a function listener, not a table listener, simply put together a table with all the expected values that the event expects (x, y, phase, name, etc.) and call your touch handler straight up.
local fakeTouchEvent = {
x = 100,
y = 200,
phase = “began”,
name = “touch”,
target = objectBeingTouched
– etc. You need to include everything listed here https://docs.coronalabs.com/api/event/touch/index.html
}
yourTouchFunction( fakeTouchEvent )
If it’s a table listener, then you would pass in the object being touched as the first parameter
yourTouchFunction( objectBeingTouched, fakeTouchEvent )
Rob
So is it the only way? There is no way to simulate touching without knowing which object is being touched, just knowing x,y?
Hi @19sheyki96,
Do you only want to know where (x,y) on the screen is being touched? No need to know any specific object? If so, just add a touch event listener to the “stage” object (Corona’s overall display stage on which all objects are placed), and detect the x and y that way.
Take care,
Brent
You can but it’s a pain. You would have to start with the stage, take the X, Y and start traversing through the the objects on the stage and seeing if your X, Y is within the bounds of that object. Then you could dispatch a touch event to that object. Then keep traversing through objects. If you see an object and it’s a group, then you would need to traverse the group as well.
Rob
That’s actually good idea that will work for me 
Thanks
If you’re touch handler is a function listener, not a table listener, simply put together a table with all the expected values that the event expects (x, y, phase, name, etc.) and call your touch handler straight up.
local fakeTouchEvent = {
x = 100,
y = 200,
phase = “began”,
name = “touch”,
target = objectBeingTouched
– etc. You need to include everything listed here https://docs.coronalabs.com/api/event/touch/index.html
}
yourTouchFunction( fakeTouchEvent )
If it’s a table listener, then you would pass in the object being touched as the first parameter
yourTouchFunction( objectBeingTouched, fakeTouchEvent )
Rob
So is it the only way? There is no way to simulate touching without knowing which object is being touched, just knowing x,y?
Hi @19sheyki96,
Do you only want to know where (x,y) on the screen is being touched? No need to know any specific object? If so, just add a touch event listener to the “stage” object (Corona’s overall display stage on which all objects are placed), and detect the x and y that way.
Take care,
Brent
You can but it’s a pain. You would have to start with the stage, take the X, Y and start traversing through the the objects on the stage and seeing if your X, Y is within the bounds of that object. Then you could dispatch a touch event to that object. Then keep traversing through objects. If you see an object and it’s a group, then you would need to traverse the group as well.
Rob
That’s actually good idea that will work for me Thanks