Swallow touches EventListenerMouse

cocos2d-x C++
#1

Hello World!
When i figure out ( inside some of EventListenerMouse callbacks ) that i focus on some Node i need to prevent continue of Mouse event propagation. ( Analogy swallowTouches in EventListenerTouchOneByOne ).
How to implement such behavior with EventListenerMouse?

#2

I can’t check right now, but, will EventMouse::stopPropagation help me?

#3

the same way you do with touch. check to see what you clicked on and if it is what you want return a bool to represent how you want to handle it.

basically this same thing:

auto listener1 = EventListenerTouchOneByOne::create();

// trigger when you push down
listener1->onTouchBegan = [](Touch* touch, Event* event){
    // your code
    return true; // if you are consuming it
};

// trigger when moving touch
listener1->onTouchMoved = [](Touch* touch, Event* event){
    // your code
};

// trigger when you let up
listener1->onTouchEnded = [=](Touch* touch, Event* event){
    // your code
};
#4

According to http://www.cocos2d-x.org/reference/native-cpp/V3.0beta2/d6/d70/classcocos2d_1_1_event_listener_mouse.html
All calbacks has void(Event *event) semantic, and, object of type EventListenerMouse doesn’t have setSwallow… method.

#5

notice this!

#6

Yes, I believe stopPropagation is the way to go for EventListenerMouse.

#7

I’m now in the habit of treating touch and mouse very similar in my handling. What do you do? You are on 2.2.6, right?

#8

I use both 2.x and 3.x, but I have never created a desktop app, i.e. an app that uses a mouse, in 2.x. In 3.x, all EventListenerMouse callbacks are void functions. I tested this and can confirm that returning true or false from onMouseBegan does nothing.

#9

in 2.2.6 and what version of 3 did you test?

#10

I tested this is in 3.14.1. The code for the callbacks in EventListenerMouse for both 3.14.1 and the latest version (3.16) is:

std::function<void(EventMouse* event)> onMouseDown;
std::function<void(EventMouse* event)> onMouseUp;
std::function<void(EventMouse* event)> onMouseMove;
std::function<void(EventMouse* event)> onMouseScroll;
#11

Just investigated and here is what happens when you use the mouse:

  1. The EventMouse is created and is sent to the dispatcher.
  2. The dispatcher gets each listener for mouse events and dispatches the event to each of them.
  3. After a listener has been sent the event, event->isStopped() is used to check if the event should not be sent to other listeners. isStopped is set to true when stopPropagation() is used.
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#12

We should update the event dispatch docs to reflect this. I think folks should know about this. I hadn’t looked before.

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