Re: Tracking Multiple Touches For Appropriate Label

2009-12-10 Thread Chunk 1978
i'm receiving memory leaks when using this code on device with instruments. the code seems fine to me so i don't understand the leaks. leaking objects are GSEvent and GeneralBlock-16. you can download my small sample project i've created using the above code at this address: http://tinyurl.com/

Re: Tracking Multiple Touches For Appropriate Label

2009-12-08 Thread Chunk 1978
i'm very grateful for your help. thanks so much for posting such a complete solution. i'm certain there will be others like myself who will find your code extremely helpful. thanks again. On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 5:24 PM, mmalc Crawford wrote: > > On Dec 8, 2009, at 12:33 pm, mmalc Crawford wrot

Re: Tracking Multiple Touches For Appropriate Label

2009-12-08 Thread mmalc Crawford
On Dec 8, 2009, at 12:33 pm, mmalc Crawford wrote: Get the logic right... > - (void)setUpTouchHandling { > >touchToLabelMapping = CFDictionaryCreateMutable (kCFAllocatorDefault, 5, > &kCFTypeDictionaryKeyCallBacks, &kCFTypeDictionaryValueCallBacks); >availableLabels = [[NSMutableArray a

Re: Tracking Multiple Touches For Appropriate Label

2009-12-08 Thread mmalc Crawford
On Dec 8, 2009, at 8:59 am, Chunk 1978 wrote: > this is what i have so far, but i have no idea how to write the > touchesEnded method so that the appropriate label will clear. so if 3 > fingers are touching the screen and displaying their different > coordinates, if the 2nd finger that was press

Re: Tracking Multiple Touches For Appropriate Label

2009-12-08 Thread Chunk 1978
this is what i have so far, but i have no idea how to write the touchesEnded method so that the appropriate label will clear.  so if 3 fingers are touching the screen and displaying their different coordinates, if the 2nd finger that was pressed ends its touch, the 2nd label will clear ("Touch 2: {

Re: Tracking Multiple Touches For Appropriate Label

2009-12-08 Thread mmalc Crawford
On Dec 8, 2009, at 3:49 am, Chunk 1978 wrote: > i meant that i find it complicated compared to basic single touches or > gestures. > It's not clear what's complicated. You typically want to know when touches began, moved, and ended, and there are methods to inform you when each of these things

Re: Tracking Multiple Touches For Appropriate Label

2009-12-08 Thread Chunk 1978
i meant that i find it complicated compared to basic single touches or gestures. it's making my head swim. since it's something i would imagine lots of developers have to deal with i'm mostly surprised that apple hasn't made the process more convenient, but instead the docs state that i have to u

Re: Tracking Multiple Touches For Appropriate Label

2009-12-08 Thread Graham Cox
On 08/12/2009, at 8:58 PM, Chunk 1978 wrote: > i'm really surprised with how complicated this > is. Yes, because a multi-touch gesture-based events system is child's play, really. Makes you wonder why Apple's OS is the only one to have it built in, since any half-decent programmer could jus

Re: Tracking Multiple Touches For Appropriate Label

2009-12-08 Thread Chunk 1978
thanks for the links. i'm really surprised with how complicated this is. i'm also equally surprised that there is not a lot of small sample code online On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 3:50 AM, mmalc Crawford wrote: > > On Dec 8, 2009, at 12:38 am, mmalc Crawford wrote: > >>> is this suppose to work for

Re: Tracking Multiple Touches For Appropriate Label

2009-12-08 Thread mmalc Crawford
On Dec 8, 2009, at 12:38 am, mmalc Crawford wrote: >> is this suppose to work for multiple touches where one touch is >> already present, then another touches the screen? >> > Yes, it does; tested in a working application. > >> it's not working for me. each time i touch the screen and add an o

Re: Tracking Multiple Touches For Appropriate Label

2009-12-08 Thread mmalc Crawford
On Dec 7, 2009, at 7:08 pm, Chunk 1978 wrote: > is this suppose to work for multiple touches where one touch is > already present, then another touches the screen? > Yes, it does; tested in a working application. > it's not working for me. each time i touch the screen and add an object to >

Re: Tracking Multiple Touches For Appropriate Label

2009-12-07 Thread Chunk 1978
is this suppose to work for multiple touches where one touch is already present, then another touches the screen? it's not working for me. each time i touch the screen and add an object to the myTouches array the return count always returns 1, no matter how many fingers i already have touching th

Re: Tracking Multiple Touches For Appropriate Label

2009-12-07 Thread mmalc Crawford
On Dec 7, 2009, at 4:12 pm, Chunk 1978 wrote: > if ([[[event allTouches] anyObject] view] == self) > { > for (UITouch *touch in touches) > { > CGPoint touchPoint = [[touches anyObject] > locationInView:self]; >