Java Development

[tolmachevroman]

Hi everyone,

 recently I tried to play with touch events handling in 9550, and had several problems. The biggest one - it didn't react at my touch activity at all. Instead it throwed small menu "Full menu", you know. My goal is to trace X and Y positions and event type. I tried to use BB doc examples, but they simply didn't work. I know navigationClick works well, but what I want is not simply GUI  - I want full control over touch events. Like in Angry birds or close. How do I do this?

My code is below. Now it outputs nothing.

package mypackage;

import net.rim.device.api.system.Bitmap;
import net.rim.device.api.system.EventInjector.TouchEvent;
import net.rim.device.api.ui.Color;
import net.rim.device.api.ui.Field;
import net.rim.device.api.ui.Graphics;
import net.rim.device.api.ui.Screen;
import net.rim.device.api.ui.VirtualKeyboard;
import net.rim.device.api.ui.component.BitmapField;
import net.rim.device.api.ui.component.ButtonField;
import net.rim.device.api.ui.component.Menu;
import net.rim.device.api.ui.container.MainScreen;
import net.rim.device.api.ui.container.VerticalFieldManager;
import net.rim.device.api.ui.decor.BackgroundFactory;

public class MyScreen extends MainScreen
{	

    public MyScreen()
    {    
    	super(NO_SYSTEM_MENU_ITEMS);
    	getScreen().getVirtualKeyboard().setVisibility(VirtualKeyboard.HIDE_FORCE);
       
    	add(new HandleTouch());
    	
    }
    
    class HandleTouch extends Field {

		protected void layout(int width, int height) {
			
		}

		public void paint(Graphics graphics) {
			//graphics.drawBitmap(0, 0, this.getWidth(), this.getHeight(), Bitmap.getBitmapResource("bg.png"), 0, 0);
		}
    	
		protected boolean touchEvent(TouchEvent message) {
			switch( message.getEvent() ) {
			case TouchEvent.CLICK:
				System.out.println("----------------------------->CLICK");
				return true;
			case TouchEvent.DOWN:
				System.out.println("----------------------------->DOWN");
				return true;	
			case TouchEvent.MOVE:
				System.out.println("----------------------------->MOVE");
				return true;	
			}
			return false;
		}
		
		public HandleTouch() {

		}
    }
   
    
}

  The process is so weird I guess it was the reason why Rovio didn't release Angry birds on BB

[tolmachevroman]

After many attempts I found that touchEvent never gets called. On the contrary, navigationClick works always fine. BTW - I added to the code a  line:

public boolean isFocusable() { return true;}

 Anyway, touchEvent never performs anything - somehow touch events overcome it. How to "turn on" this method?

[rcmaniac25]

You seem to have everything right except one thing, your layout function is blank. Since you are simply doing a basic test, just call setExtent with the given width and height.

If layout setExtent is not called then it is a size-less field and the OS doesn't need to pass touch events (which are field-size based) to it. Other interaction events can still get to it since it is not size-related so it can access size-less fields.

[tolmachevroman]

Thanx for replying. During these hours I tried many different black and white magic combination but still can't make things work. Here's my last changes. 

package mypackage;

import net.rim.device.api.system.Bitmap;
import net.rim.device.api.system.EventInjector.TouchEvent;
import net.rim.device.api.ui.Field;
import net.rim.device.api.ui.Graphics;
import net.rim.device.api.ui.VirtualKeyboard;
import net.rim.device.api.ui.container.MainScreen;

public class MyScreen extends MainScreen
{	

    public MyScreen()
    {    
    	super(NO_SYSTEM_MENU_ITEMS);
    	getScreen().getVirtualKeyboard().setVisibility(VirtualKeyboard.HIDE_FORCE);
       
    	add(new HandleTouch());
    	
    }
    
    class HandleTouch extends Field {

		protected void layout(int width, int height) {
			setExtent(width, height);
		}

		public void paint(Graphics graphics) {
			graphics.drawBitmap(0, 0, this.getWidth(), this.getHeight(), Bitmap.getBitmapResource("bg.png"), 0, 0);
		}
    	
		public boolean isFocusable() { return true;}
		
		protected boolean touchEvent(TouchEvent message) {
			switch( message.getEvent() ) {
			case TouchEvent.CLICK:
				System.out.println("----------------------------->CLICK");
				return true;
			case TouchEvent.DOWN:
				System.out.println("----------------------------->DOWN");
				return true;	
			case TouchEvent.MOVE:
				System.out.println("----------------------------->MOVE");
				return true;	
			}
			System.out.println("PRINT ME SOMETHING IN ANY CASE");
			return false;
		}
		
		public HandleTouch() {

		}
    }
   
    
}

   And here's what I get. It still doesn't return to console any text.

  

[rcmaniac25]

Hmm, I don't see anything that would make it "not" work. Well one but I don't think you would've done this.

What phone/simulator are you testing this on?

Also as a recommendation, be sure to use super.touchEvent(message) at the end if you don't handle anything.

[tolmachevroman · Accepted solution]

Errrrrrrr, as often the solution was very hidden. By occasion Eclipse automatically imported this class:

import net.rim.device.api.system.EventInjector.TouchEvent;

  which doesn't throw any notice or error in Eclipse, but it's the reason. Now, I just changed it to:

import net.rim.device.api.ui.TouchEvent;

    For better view, here's the code. I also added snippet to prevent annoying "Full Menu", it's very useful.

package mypackage;

import net.rim.device.api.system.Bitmap;
//import net.rim.device.api.system.EventInjector.TouchEvent;
import net.rim.device.api.ui.Field;
import net.rim.device.api.ui.Graphics;
import net.rim.device.api.ui.VirtualKeyboard;
import net.rim.device.api.ui.component.Menu;
import net.rim.device.api.ui.container.MainScreen;
import net.rim.device.api.ui.TouchEvent;

public class MyScreen extends MainScreen
{	
//use this to kick off annoying menu pop-up
	public boolean onMenu(int instance) {
		return instance == Menu.INSTANCE_CONTEXT ? false : super.onMenu(instance);
		}
	
    public MyScreen()
    {    
    	super(NO_SYSTEM_MENU_ITEMS);
    	getScreen().getVirtualKeyboard().setVisibility(VirtualKeyboard.HIDE_FORCE);
       
    	add(new HandleTouch());
    	
    }
    
    class HandleTouch extends Field {

		protected void layout(int width, int height) {
			setExtent(width, height);
		}

		public void paint(Graphics graphics) {
			graphics.drawBitmap(0, 0, this.getWidth(), this.getHeight(), Bitmap.getBitmapResource("bg.png"), 0, 0);
		}
    	
		public boolean isFocusable() { return true;}
		
		protected boolean touchEvent(TouchEvent message) {
			switch( message.getEvent() ) {
			case TouchEvent.CLICK:
				System.out.println("----------------------------->CLICK");
				return true;
			case TouchEvent.DOWN:
				System.out.println("----------------------------->DOWN");
				return true;	
			case TouchEvent.MOVE:
				System.out.println("----------------------------->MOVE");
				return true;	
			}
			System.out.println("PRINT ME SOMETHING IN ANY CASE");
			super.touchEvent(message);
			return false;
		}
		
		public HandleTouch() {

		}
    }
   
    
}

 Thanks for help!

[rcmaniac25]

No problem.

With the return at the end of the function, do "return super.touchEvent(message);"