event.id

Overview

A unique identifier of the chosen touch that enables you to distinguish between multiple touches across different touch events. This uniquely identifies a given finger touching the screen as that touch changes state, for example as the touch generates new touch events such as "moved", "ended", etc.

Example

system.activate( "multitouch" )

local object = display.newImage( "ball.png" )
object.numTouches = 0

function object:touch( event )
    if event.phase == "began" then
        display.getCurrentStage():setFocus( self, event.id )
        self.numTouches = self.numTouches + 1

        if self.numTouches >= 2 then
            print( "This object is being multi-touched." )
        end
    
    elseif event.phase == "cancelled" or event.phase == "ended" then

        self.numTouches = self.numTouches - 1

        if self.numTouches <= 0 then
            display.getCurrentStage():setFocus( nil )
        end
    end
    return true
end
object:addEventListener( "touch", object )