Hey all. I just started looking into the cocos2d library. I've heard that it's an easy library to get into if you're used to programming in ActionScript and I've found that a lot of the concepts are indeed similar.
I started looking through sample projects (the sample games linked here were especially helpful) and I saw that handling of touches usually isn't done in a CCSprite. Rather, the CCLayer that instantiates CCSprites reacts to a touch event and iterates through the sprites it created to detect which CCSprite was touched (if any).
I want CCSprites to handle whether they've been touched themselves, and call up to notify that it's been touched (if needed). The Paddle class found under /tests/TouchesTest does just this - it handles touches by itself.
So, the question I have is: What's considered best practice for this? Is it better to have touches handled in a central location and iterate through children to see what's been touched? Or should each child handle its own touch events? Or does it not matter?
I'd prefer each child handling its own touch events but I'd like to follow best practices on this (if they exist). Thanks!