Cocos2d CCMenuItemSprite in stacked menus not working - iphone

Question

I am trying to simulate a modal view in cocos2d by displaying a few sprites over my scene and showing a menuitemsprite as a continue button. In the code below, i show my game over modal and have the menu set up with a CCMenuItemSprite; which does not respond to touches, and a CCMenuItemImage; which does work.
-(void) gameOver {
CGSize size = [[CCDirector sharedDirector] winSize];
self.menu.isTouchEnabled = NO;
CCLayer *modalLayer = [[CCLayer alloc] init];
[self addChild:modalLayer z:20];
CCSprite *spriteGameOver = [CCSprite spriteWithFile:#"game_over.png"];
spriteGameOver.position = ccp( size.width/2,size.height/2);
CCLabelTTF *lblGameOver = [CCLabelTTF labelWithString:[NSString stringWithFormat:#"Game Over!\nScore %d/%d",numCorrect,questionIdx] dimensions:CGSizeMake(380, 300) alignment:CCTextAlignmentCenter fontName:#"Trebuchet MS" fontSize:50.0f];
// position the label on the center of the screen
lblGameOver.position = ccp(size.width/2-200, size.height/2-100);
lblGameOver.color = ccc3(20, 20, 20);
lblGameOver.opacity = 0;
// add the label as a child to this Layer
[spriteGameOver addChild: lblGameOver];
spriteGameOver.opacity = 0;
[modalLayer addChild:spriteGameOver];
CCSprite *spriteGameOverBtn = [CCSprite spriteWithFile:#"mainButton.png" rect:CGRectMake(0,0,300,60)];
spriteGameOverBtn.position = ccp( size.width/2,size.height/2-100);
CCLabelTTF *lblGameOverBtn = [CCLabelTTF labelWithString:#"Continue" dimensions:CGSizeMake(300, 60) alignment:CCTextAlignmentCenter fontName:#"Trebuchet MS" fontSize:40.0f];
//lblGameOverBtn.position = ccp(size.width/2-200, size.height/2-300);
[lblGameOverBtn setAnchorPoint:ccp(0.0f,0.1f)];
lblGameOverBtn.color = ccc3(20, 20, 20);
lblGameOverBtn.opacity = 0;
// add the label as a child to this Layer
[spriteGameOverBtn addChild: lblGameOverBtn];
spriteGameOverBtn.opacity = 0;
CCMenuItemImage *itemH = [CCMenuItemImage itemFromNormalImage:#"backArrow.png" selectedImage:#"backArrowS.png" target:self selector:#selector(goToMain:)];
itemH.position = ccp( size.width/2,size.height/2-100);
CCMenuItemSprite *mGameOverBtn = [CCMenuItemSprite itemFromNormalSprite:spriteGameOverBtn selectedSprite:nil disabledSprite:nil target:self selector:#selector(goToMain:)];
CCMenu *menuGO = [CCMenu menuWithItems: itemH,mGameOverBtn, nil];
menuGO.position = ccp( 0, 0);
[modalLayer addChild:menuGO z:21];
[lblGameOverBtn runAction:[CCSequence actions:[CCDelayTime actionWithDuration: 1.75f],[CCFadeIn actionWithDuration: 1.75f],nil]];
[spriteGameOverBtn runAction:[CCSequence actions:[CCDelayTime actionWithDuration: 1.75f],[CCFadeIn actionWithDuration: 1.75f],[CCDelayTime actionWithDuration: 3.75f],nil]];
[lblGameOver runAction:[CCSequence actions:[CCDelayTime actionWithDuration: 1.75f],[CCFadeIn actionWithDuration: 1.75f],[CCDelayTime actionWithDuration: 3.75f],nil]];
[spriteGameOver runAction:[CCSequence actions:[CCDelayTime actionWithDuration: 1.75f],[CCFadeIn actionWithDuration: 1.75f],[CCDelayTime actionWithDuration: 3.75f],nil]];
//[self runAction:[CCSequence actions:[CCDelayTime actionWithDuration: 2.75f],[CCCallFunc actionWithTarget:self selector:#selector(goToMain:)], nil]];
}

Answer 1

I'm having the same problem with CCMenuItemSprite too. It looks like the CCMenuItemSprite-class is a bit buggy. In my case it doesn't respond to touches. But I found out it has something to do with multi-layered Sprites inside the CCMenuItemSprite. So when I use a single-layered Sprite it works, but when I use a Sprite which contains multiple embedded sprites it doesn't.
My 'not-ready-yet' solution right now is setting the contentSize to the appropriate size of the CCMenuItemSprite right after it has been initialized:
CCMenuItemSprite * menuItem = [CCMenuItemSprite itemWithNormalSprite:multiLayeredSprite selectedSprite:nil target:self selector:#selector(clickHandler:)];
[s setContentSize:backgroundSprite.contentSize];
CCMenu * menu = [CCMenu menuWithItems:
menuItem,
nil];
It's receiving touch-events now. The only problem I now have is the positioning of the Rectangle... it's still in the upper-right corner. I'll try to found out how to fix this now.
Hopefully this is clarifying a bit of the problem.

Answer 2

Have you have registered your scene with the touch dispatcher and your selectors actually do something?
[[CCTouchDispatcher sharedDispatcher] addTargetedDelegate:self priority:0 swallowsTouches:NO]