Stage keeps propagating handled touch events

I just stumbled over this issue: http://gamedev.stackexchange.com/questions/106120/stopping-actor-tap-click-event-from-propagating

I believe this might be a bug in Stage. Looking at its touchUp handler (or any of the other handlers), it doesn’t appear to stop events from propagating when listeners handle it, since it makes no attempt to break out of the loop if Event#isHandled() is true: https://github.com/libgdx/libgdx/blob/2bd1557bc293cb8c2348374771aad832befbe26f/gdx/src/com/badlogic/gdx/scenes/scene2d/Stage.java#L348

This means that it’s impossible to receive click events in actors and swallow them in order to prevent them from triggering other game behavior in response to taps on the stage.

[Darkyenus]

Ah, I assumed InputListener. The returning is done in handle(Event) method of EventListener. InputListener returns whatever its (usually overriden) touchDown/Up/whatever returned. For ActorGestureListener this is slightly more complicated, because it does not support “not detecting gesture” and always returns true. Therefore, you will have to override the handle() method and add custom gesture-filtering logic.

[NathanSweet]

Explanations by @Darkyenus are correct.