Disabling Touch

Questions
1

Is there a way to temporarily disable touch? I want to be able to touch the screen and have something happen and then not have anything happen when the screen is touched for the next couple seconds. Thanks in advance for the help.

2

@bfisher Not sure what you want to do, but here’s an example that prevents a touch for 5 seconds.

function setup()
    count=0
    et=-10
end

function draw()
    background(40, 40, 50)
    fill(255)
    text("tap screen to increment the count",WIDTH/2,HEIGHT/2+100)
    text("count = "..count,WIDTH/2,HEIGHT/2)
    if et>0 then
        text("wait   "..(5-(ElapsedTime-et)//1).."   seconds.",WIDTH/2,HEIGHT/2-100)
    end
end

function touched(t)
    if ElapsedTime-et>5 then
        if t.state==BEGAN then
            count=count+1
            et=ElapsedTime
        end
    end
end
3

@bfisher - an alternative is to use an indicator variable

NoTouch=true --turns off touch
NoTouch=false --turns on touch

function touched(t)
   if NoTouch==false then return end
   --normal touch code goes here   
end