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1. 

   pabloruiz55
   Member

   Hi!

   I have a problem integrating scoreloop OR openfeint to my game, apparently when calling runScene using fastdirector, most elements in those API don't receive touches...

   I tracked the bug to this:

   FastDirector has this: and normal director does not...

   - (void) startAnimation
   {
   // XXX:
   // XXX: release autorelease objects created
   // XXX: between "use fast director" and "runWithScene"
   // XXX:
   [autoreleasePool release];
   autoreleasePool = nil;

   }

   I can not switch to normal director becasue my game stops working smoothly, so i was wondering what would happen if i removed those lines from fastdirector... what would i have to do so nothing breaks?

   Ah i am using cocos2d v0.8 and the latest build of scoreloop and openfeint.

   Posted 2 years ago #
2. 

   Wim Haanstra
   Member

   I am having the same problems. It indeed has something to do with the FastDirector, because when disabling the FastDirector, the problem is resolved...

   I hope someone can fix this problem

   Posted 2 years ago #
3. 

   riq
   Key Master

   It's the way FastDirector works. It has it's one main loop.
   The alternative is to use the normal director with an internval like 1/240.

   Posted 2 years ago #
4. 

   pabloruiz55
   Member

   Well the problem is because of startAnimation and stopAnimation...

   If you call stopanimation before caling the api it does work...
   I tried doing that and then startanimation when the api closes, but i was getting random EXEC_BAD_ACCESS so i ditched it...

   Posted 2 years ago #
5. 

   riq
   Key Master

   Ok. Then, I don't understand why it doesn't work with FastDirector.

   If if you have a fix, could you create an issue here: http://code.google.com/p/cocos2d-iphone/issues/list with your patch ?
   thanks.

   Posted 2 years ago #
6. 

   pabloruiz55
   Member

   I didn't really reach any solution... I tried to make scoreloop work so in the provided callbacks i did stopanimation and startanimation accordingly. It made the API work BUT sometimes my app would crash... i didn't try this with openfeint but i think it is because of the same thing... since not using fastdirector also made it work OK.

   I got word from openfeint that they were trying to solve it, so maybe we could wait for them to do something or at least tell me they can't / won't solve it...

   I could open an issue if you still like, but i don't have any definitive solution nor patch for cocos2d since the changes i made were inside the scoreloop's callbacks...

   Posted 2 years ago #
7. 

   Zemm
   Member

   This also seems to be a problem with the GKPeerPickerController that comes with the 3.0 SDK. The cancel button on the window that it pops up works, as does the accept button when you get a connection request, but the list of available connections doesn't work. I tested this by enabling FastDirector on the build on one device and disabling it on the other. The disabled one could select the other one from the list, but not vice versa, and once the enabled one selected it the disabled one got the prompt to accept the connection and that window registered the touch and accepted the connection.

   Posted 2 years ago #
8. 

   zombie
   Member

   Is there already a solution or workaround for this. We are using Chillingos Crystal and have the same problem. On old hardware the FastDirector gives us the best performance. But it alos gives us touch problems in Crystal. Is it possible to change the Director when calling Crystal and again when leaving it?

   Posted 1 year ago #
9. 

   jd
   Member

   What many did here was NOT use FastDirector. You can manually set the AnimationInterval high like 1.0/240 to get the same effect. That was on 8.x.

   Posted 1 year ago #
10. 

    zombie
    Member

    I now call stopAnimation before any UIView pop up. Works. But I will try if i get the same performance when setting the interval high. Should I use CCDirectorTypeNSTimer in that case?

    Posted 1 year ago #
11. 

    jd
    Member

    I'm not at home to look. Whatever the default director is. You can just comment out your UseFastDirector line and it will use default.

    Posted 1 year ago #
12. 

    zombie
    Member

    ok. thanks!

    Posted 1 year ago #

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