Multitouch - Two Touches at The Same Time?

[lukeume]

Hey guys, would love some help here as I'm close to tearing my hair out!

I am using the Multitouch object for an iOS app and I need to be able to have the player press either button 1 or button 2 or both buttons at the same time. The single touch is working but nothing I do is registering the second touch, so there is no way to have two buttons being pushed (and held) at once. I have looked at example .mfa files and tried to adapt them but nothing seems to work. The second touch just never seems to be created when testing.

Please help, this seems like very simple functionality but it seems to be entirely impossible to achieve?

[DaveC]

It's definitely not impossible to achieve.. if you post your code we might be able to point out the mistakes you're making. Here is a quick example I just whipped up - let me know if it needs explaining.

[lukeume]

Hey DaveC, thanks for attaching that example. I built your protect in Xcode and the same problem is occurring. I can see the first tracking object being created below my touch, but when I put another finger down, the second target isn't created. Any ideas?

[DaveC]

perhaps in the Frame Properties under iOS options - select Multiple Touch instead of Single Touch?

[lukeume]

Yikes - that was it! Completely overlooked that. Thank you so much for your help DaveC.

[DaveC]

yeah I forgot about that deal... it's not required for multi touch on Android, just on iOS.. I don't really understand the point of having to choose single or multi.. maybe it gives a bump in performance or something..