I am trying to implement a simple menu in my android opengl game. The basic structure has 5 vertically stacked buttons, menu1 - menu5. I have setup touch controls and each of the menu buttons react properly to a touch in the desired area of each button. For each menu screen I have a boolean which if true will activate a draw sequence in the renderer to show the text/buttons for that screen. For example I start with boolean mainmenu = true. This screen has three buttons- play, options, & exit. When play is pressed, I set the mainmenuscreen boolean to false, and arcadescreen to true.

Where I am having trouble is the button press automatically reacts as the same button on the next screen. For example my play button is in the second position, menu2. As soon as it is pressed, if there is a button in the 2nd slot, menu2, on the next screen it acts as if it has been pressed also. This continues until a screen comes up with no button in that position.

I have tried separating the menu code to only MotionEvent.ACTION_UP, and setting a boolean "anypressed" for a delay of 10 frames before another touch event can occur. I also tried switching the return value true/false. Nothing seems to stop the button from activating through all screens that contain that button.

Here is the code I am using for the touch event:


Everything works fine on the renderer side, but there seems to be no way to stop the button presses until the next screen has no button in that position.

Is there a better way to go about this? Am I missing something? Any help would be greatly appreciated.

With only skimming the code, I want to suggest a few things.

1. Try putting some sort of animation period when you click a menu button. This animator should be long enough to stall the program flow from initiating the pressed sequence twice.

2. Perhaps when you return false (which doesn't consume the event). The mouse button event is still active, thus pressing until there is no more buttons in that region. Sorry, but I know vaguely of touch input as of now.

3. Without an animator, stall again. Perhaps creating a variable that make sure you cannot proceed until the waiting is done and if another touch happens. This is sorta hackish, but it should work.
Variables like:

boolean hasWaited = false; //sets to true after the stall
int numTouches = 0; //increments per touch and resets at the beginning of the menu. (Or something similar).

I hope this helps.