I 'm developing a simple ionic app, and part of the app requires you to press two buttons at once. I've built this logic like so:
<!--yT stands for yourThumb, pT stands for partnersThumb -->
<a class="icon ion-qr-scanner lg-txt" on-hold="Global.thumbHoldManager('yT',true)" on-release="Global.thumbHoldManager('yT',false, true)"></a>
<a class="icon ion-qr-scanner lg-txt" on-hold="Global.thumbHoldManager('pT',true)" on-release="Global.thumbHoldManager('pT',false, true)"></a>
I have a method on my controller which handles this event using a service I 've created
var globalCtrl = function (clickHandler, $timeout) {
var self = this;
this.clickHandler = clickHandler;
this.timeout = $timeout;
this.readyState = clickHandler.ready;
this.showInstruction = false;
clickHandler.watchForReady();
};
globalCtrl.prototype.thumbHoldManager = function(which, what, up) {
this.clickHandler.setClickState(which, what);
var self = this;
if (up) {
this.clickHandler.stopWatching();
}
if (!this.readyState) {
this.instruction = "Hold both thumbs in place to scan"
if (!this.showInstruction) {
this.showInstruction = true;
self.timeout(function() {
self.showInstruction = false;
}, 5000)
}
}
};
globalCtrl.$inject = ['clickHandler', '$timeout'];
The service clickHandler exposes an api to a private object whose job it is to track when a button is pressed, and when both buttons are pressed to navigate to a new url.
.factory('clickHandler', [
'$interval',
'$rootScope',
'$location',
function($interval, $rootScope, $location) {
// Service logic
// ...
var clickState = {
yT: false,
pT: false,
ready: false,
watching: false,
watcher: false
};
// Public API here
return {
setClickState: function(which, what) {
clickState[which] = what;
},
getClickState: function(which) {
return clickState[which]
},
getReadyState: function() {
return ((clickState.yT) && (clickState.pT));
},
watchForReady: function() {
var self = this;
clickState.watching = $interval(function() {
clickState.ready = self.getReadyState();
},50);
clickState.watcher = $rootScope.$watch(function() {
return clickState.ready
}, function redirect(newValue) {
if (newValue) {
self.stopWatching();
$location.path('/scan');
}
})
},
stopWatching: function() {
if (clickState.watching) {
$interval.cancel(clickState.watching);
clickState.watcher();
clickState.watching = false;
clickState.watcher = false;
}
}
};
}
])
I don't get any errors with this code, everything works as it should, the watcher gets registered on the hold event and unregistered on the release event. But no matter what I do, I cannot seem to get my phone to detect a press on both buttons. It's always one or the other and I don't know why. I can't test this in the browser or the emulator since multi-touch is not supported and I don't have a multi-touch trackpad if it were.