[SOLVED] [iPhone] New UIView / UIViewController for input

[sphere]

Hi all,

What I'm attempting to do is create a custom UIViewController that I can use to capture and handle touch/movement events instead of relying on OIS (as has been advised in the forums), and I've looked at the following tutorials to learn about touch events:
http://www.iphonesdkarticles.com/2008/0 ... orial.html (1)
http://chris-software.com/index.php/200 ... matically/ (2)

What I've managed to do so far (in a NON-Ogre project) is create a new UIViewController programatically (link 2) and detect the events and output particulars (for debug) to the console (link 1). I've implemented the very basic code into my Ogre app (based on the iPhone templates), and the new view is created (it's set to be yellow for now so that I can see it; it'll be set to transparent later), but no matter where I create it in the AppDelegate's appDidFinishLaunching method, Ogre always renders over the top and my touch events aren't detected.

What I'm needing to know is where/how should I be creating the new subView so that it'll detect touch events on top of Ogre's rendering view, and/or is there a way I can pump through the touch events to all the views?

InputViewController.h

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#import <UIKit/UIKit.h>
@interface InputViewController : UIViewController
  {}
@end

InputViewController.m

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#import "InputViewController.h"

@implementation InputViewController

-(void)loadView
{
	NSLog(@"Test Load View");
	self.view = [[UIView alloc] initWithFrame:CGRectMake(0, 0, 320, 480)];
	self.view.backgroundColor = [UIColor yellowColor];
	[self.view release];
}

- (void)touchesBegan:(NSSet *)touches withEvent:(UIEvent *)event 
{
	NSLog(@"Test touch-began");
}

main.cpp, in AppDelegate declaration and implementation

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@interface AkuEngineAppDelegate : NSObject <UIApplicationDelegate>
{
	UIWindow *window;
	InputViewController *inputController;
}

@property (nonatomic, retain) IBOutlet UIWindow *window;

- (void)go;

@end

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- (void)applicationDidFinishLaunching:(UIApplication *)application
{
	[[UIApplication sharedApplication] setStatusBarHidden:YES];  // Hide the status bar
	window = [[UIWindow alloc] initWithFrame:[[UIScreen mainScreen] bounds]];  // Create a window

	inputController = [InputViewController alloc];  // My code
	[window addSubview:inputController.view];  // My code
	
	[window makeKeyAndVisible];  // Display our window
    
	[NSThread detachNewThreadSelector:@selector(go) toTarget:self withObject:nil];	
}

[masterfalcon]

Try using UIView instead of UIViewController. While UIViewController also inherits from UIResponder(where the touch handling methods are declared) its purpose is to control multiple views. Transitioning from one to another for example. While the view itself should be the one to handle the touch events. If you run into problems here are some other methods that may help but might not be necessary.

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    [myView setMultipleTouchEnabled:YES];
    [myView setExclusiveTouch:YES];
    [myView becomeFirstResponder];

[sphere]

I changed the custom class to inherit from UIView and changed the appDidLoad method to the following, but still no luck (I've left class/variable names the same as before for consistency):

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...
	inputController = [[inputViewController alloc] initWithFrame:CGRectMake(0, 0, 320, 480 )];
	[inputController becomeFirstResponder];
	[inputController setMultipleTouchEnabled:YES];
	[inputController setExclusiveTouch:YES];
	
	[window addSubview:inputController];
	[window bringSubviewToFront:inputController];

	[window makeKeyAndVisible];
	
	[NSThread detachNewThreadSelector:@selector(go) toTarget:self withObject:nil];
...

Again, I still see it load up, but once my game loop starts it's covered over. (I also commented out the last line - [NSThread ...] - and confirmed that the touches *are* being detected.) I've also tried using 'bringSubviewToFront:' after I initialise Ogre to make sure it's put on top of any other views it might create, but again, it had no affect.

Any other ideas?

[masterfalcon]

Instead of creating a new window, try attaching your UIView to the window created by Ogre. You can get a pointer to it with this code:

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UIWindow *mUIWindow = nil;
RenderWindow *mWindow = Ogre::Root::getSingleton().getAutoCreatedWindow();
mWindow->getCustomAttribute("WINDOW", &mUIWindow);

Then add your view using the mUIWindow pointer.

[sphere]

Oh, of course. I was getting confused by that UIWindow in the appDelegate and thought that it was *the* window.

Anyway, that code did the trick, so many thanks!

(To anyone else that's reading this with the same problems, you should be able to patch together my code from above, and keep in mind that this view will need to be added AFTER you initialise Ogre - It took me a few minutes to realise that ).

Thanks again, Master F.

[DanielSefton]

Question: The XCode templates allocs a window at the very beginning to display the loading view. If I want to do the same as suggested above, would I need to release the loading window, set it to nil and then pass it through getCustomAttribute? (Because Ogre is initialised much later.) Well, I've tried it and it causes a period of blackness. Just can't think of a better solution.

Edit: Nevermind, all is good now, having a window exclusively for loading is fine.