"touch" event has a faster response than "tap" event

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#1

I’m converting my baseball game over to Corona and noticed that when I press the
bat button(using the “tap” event ), that there is a very small delay before the bat moves.
By small delay I mean maybe like 200ms.

I thought maybe it was the Galaxy tab causing delay, but it also had the delay on iOS devices.

So I tried the “touch” event instead of the “tap” event and was surprised that the touch response
was almost instant.

Can anyone confirm?
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#2

I haven’t tried this in a while, but yea I remember touch being faster.

I don’t ever use tap and I am lazy, so I use touch anyway lol. [import]uid: 61600 topic_id: 13497 reply_id: 49551[/import]

#3

Yeah, it looks like I’ll be using touch for now on.

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#4

I was just doing some testing using tap and from what I gathered, tap fires off when you lift your finger. Please correct me if I’m wrong as this was the first time I ever used it but that is how it was responding with me. If you use the tap event and hold your finger onto the screen, does the bat not swing until you lift it off? [import]uid: 31262 topic_id: 13497 reply_id: 49565[/import]

#5

You are correct aaaron. The tap event doesn’t fire until you lift your finger. So that explains the slight delay.
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