touchscreen and layers

[cfullerNY]

I have a feeling this is already answered elsewhere, but due to the general terms it seems hard to search for.

I have a touchscreen game which uses multitouch object. I have 2 layers. I put the actives to be touched on the first layer. The presses don't register.

Is multitouch obj compatible with layers? Should I put the "buttons" on the last layer instead of the first? I'm going to do some tests now on my own to try to figure out a solution, but if I could get more information from the users here I would greatly appreciate it.

Thanks everybody!

[DaveC]

how are you testing for the touches? if you're using actives to test for the touches you need to make sure the actives are on the same layer.

[mobichan]

I think the only Multitouch command that ignores layering is the "Has touch occurred?" condition. Otherwise, you should use an active object and set it to the position of the touch. Then test that active for overlap (or whatever you need) to check if your touch was on another object. You can look at the examples section for how to do multitouch using actives. It makes life much easier.