CGRect and touch - ios

Question

In this cocos2d app the nslog is not firing when I press the ccsprite. Could someone help me?
-(BOOL)ccTouchBegan:(UITouch *)touch withEvent:(UIEvent *)event{
NSMutableArray *targetsToDelete = [[NSMutableArray alloc] init];
for (CCSprite *target in _targets) {
CGRect targetRect = CGRectMake(target.position.x - (target.contentSize.width/2),
target.position.y - (target.contentSize.height/2),
27,
40);
CGPoint touchLocation = [self convertTouchToNodeSpace:touch];
if (CGRectContainsPoint(targetRect, touchLocation)) {
NSLog(#"Moo cheese!");
}
}
return YES;
}

Answer 1

First of all be sure that you register the sprite for touches into the onEnter method for example:
- (void)onEnter
{
[[CCTouchDispatcher sharedDispatcher] addTargetedDelegate:self priority:defaultTouchPriority_ swallowsTouches:YES];
[super onEnter];
}
This will make your sprite touchable and so fire the event to the sprite when a user will press it.
Then refactor your code to make it more readable and test something like that:
- (BOOL)ccTouchBegan:(UITouch *)touch withEvent:(UIEvent *)event
{
CGPoint touchLocation = [self convertTouchToNodeSpace:touch];
NSArray *targetsToDelete = [self touchedSpritesAtLocation:touchLocation];
// Put your code here
// ...
return YES;
}
- (NSArray *)touchedSpritesAtLocation:(CGPoint)location
{
NSMutableArray *touchedSprites = [[NSMutableArray alloc] init];
for (CCSprite *target in _targets)
if (CGRectContainsPoint(target.boundingBox, location))
[touchedSprites addObject:target];
return [touchedSprites autorelease];
}
It should return the targets that have been touched.

Answer 2

In layer init method add this
self.isTouchEnabled = true;
Use this code for touch detection
- (void)ccTouchesBegan:(NSSet *)touches withEvent:(UIEvent *)event
{
UITouch *myTouch = [touches anyObject];
CGPoint location = [myTouch locationInView:[myTouch view]];
location = [[CCDirector sharedDirector] convertToGL:location];
CGRect rect = [self getSpriteRect:yourSprite];
if (CGRectContainsPoint(rect, location))
{
NSLog(#"Sprite touched\n");
}
}
To get sprite rect:
-(CGRect)getSpriteRect:(CCNode *)inSprite
{
CGRect sprRect = CGRectMake(
inSprite.position.x - inSprite.contentSize.width*inSprite.anchorPoint.x,
inSprite.position.y - inSprite.contentSize.height*inSprite.anchorPoint.y,
inSprite.contentSize.width,
inSprite.contentSize.height
);
return sprRect;
}