pygbag: Touching "Ready to Start !" on iOS 17.1.1 (iPhone 14 Pro) Doesn't Do Anything

Hello,

When I use my laptop to run my pygbag game, I am able to click on “Ready to Start !” and play the game (Mac M1 with Google Chrome). However, when I use my iPhone 14 Pro with Safari or Google Chrome browsers and try to touch the message, nothing happens.

The game (as an example) is https://bradwyatt.github.io/clickball/, but this extends to any other pygbag games hosted in browsers that I’ve tried.

My only workarounds so far to get this to work on iPhone/iPad: Workaround #1) This will auto-start without “Ready to Start!”: pygbag --ume_block 0 main.py. However, this is not optimal because you’ll get a pop-up message “play() failed because the user didn’t interact with the document first” Workaround #2) When I touch on anywhere on the page outside of the game, the game does seem to start. Workaround #3) I have a trackpad on my iPad, and when I use my trackpad (with accessibility) to do a click, that works.

Thanks

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State: open
Created 7 months ago
Comments: 17 (8 by maintainers)

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Hi, first please retry with the --git option on pygbag build.

i don’t have access to a physical device to fix that - javascript - bug, and only safari 15 was tested ok for now (with git version) . The only workaround that works right now is --ume_block 0 and wait for a click in pygame loop before starting background music.

pmp-p on Nov 27, 2023