Cocos2D: SneakyJoystick + Touch Events, problem - cocos2d-iphone

Question

im having some trouble using SneakyJoystick and ccTouchEnded stuff.
What is my goal, use the joystick to walk around and the touches to interact with the surrounding area.
I have two layers,ControlLayer (z:2) and GamePlayLayer (z:1)
Im Using TiledMap for my ground and map.
The Joystick by it self works fine, it is attached to the ControlLayer. I can walk, colide and stuff.
When i add the Touch events to the GamePlayLayer, the touch works, i can click on something on the "ground" and interact with it. BUT my joystick dosent work then, if i run using the touch the joystick just sit there not responsive.
Here is some of my code, if u guys need more, just ask.
Touch methods in the GameplayLayer
-(void) registerWithTouchDispatcher
{
[[CCTouchDispatcher sharedDispatcher] addTargetedDelegate:self
priority:0 swallowsTouches:YES];
}
-(BOOL) ccTouchBegan:(UITouch *)touch withEvent:(UIEvent *)event
{
return YES;
}
-(void) ccTouchEnded:(UITouch *)touch withEvent:(UIEvent *)event
{
CGPoint touchLocation = [touch locationInView: [touch view]];
touchLocation = [[CCDirector sharedDirector] convertToGL: touchLocation];
touchLocation = [self convertToNodeSpace:touchLocation];
CGPoint tileCoord = [self tileCoordForPosition:touchLocation];
int tileGid = [meta tileGIDAt:tileCoord];
if (tileGid) {
NSDictionary *properties = [tileMap propertiesForGID:tileGid];
if (properties) {
NSString *collectable = [properties valueForKey:#"Collectable"];
if (collectable && [collectable compare:#"True"] == NSOrderedSame) {
[meta removeTileAt:tileCoord];
[foreground removeTileAt:tileCoord];
}
}
}
}
And how my scene is arranged:
#implementation SandBoxScene
-(id)init {
self = [super init];
if (self!=nil) {
//Control Layer
controlLayer = [GameControlLayer node];
[self addChild:controlLayer z:2 tag:2];
//GamePlayLayer
GameplayLayer *gameplayLayer = [GameplayLayer node];
[gameplayLayer connectControlsWithJoystick:[controlLayer leftJoyStick]
andJumpButton:[controlLayer jumpButton]
andAttackButton:[controlLayer attackButton]];
[self addChild:gameplayLayer z:1 tag:1];
}
return self;
}
#end
Thanks for the help!

Answer 1

The problem is that your code does not account for multiple touches. Using -(BOOL) ccTouchBegan:(UITouch *)touch.. or -(void) ccTouchEnded:(UITouch *)touch.. will only take one touch... instead you need to use ccTouchesEnded:.. your method should look something like this:
-(void)ccTouchesEnded:(NSSet *)touches withEvent:(UIEvent *)event {
//get your touch from the set of UITouches
UITouch *myTouch = [touches anyObject];
//the rest below is the same from your method
CGPoint touchLocation = [myTouch locationInView: [myTouch view]];
touchLocation = [[CCDirector sharedDirector] convertToGL: touchLocation];
touchLocation = [self convertToNodeSpace:touchLocation];
CGPoint tileCoord = [self tileCoordForPosition:touchLocation];
int tileGid = [meta tileGIDAt:tileCoord];
if (tileGid) {
NSDictionary *properties = [tileMap propertiesForGID:tileGid];
if (properties) {
NSString *collectable = [properties valueForKey:#"Collectable"];
if (collectable && [collectable compare:#"True"] == NSOrderedSame) {
[meta removeTileAt:tileCoord];
[foreground removeTileAt:tileCoord];
}
}
}
}
You also need to add [glView setMultipleTouchEnabled:YES]; to your appDelegate. I am not entirely sure that the method above works. This question deals with implementing multitouch with cocos2d. Hope this helps

Answer 2

Sorry thats was not the solution, i do want to handle just one touch, the problem was in the priority, i was giving priority 0 to my gameplayLayer, and swalloing every time, so i didnt give chance to the controlayer that had priority 1 to get the touch and act upon my joystick.
The solution that i found was changing the priority from 0 to 2 then, the (controlLayer) joystick would act and pass the touch to the priority 2, that was my gameplayLayer
but thanks anyway :)