Handle tapStart Event on a button - events

Question

I have an app with a carousel. On all of the carousel pages there are elements such as buttons and datepickers. I would like to handle the tapStart event on each of these elements using Sencha Touch but I haven't been able to find anything to allow me to do this.
Does anyone have an idea?
UPDATE
I asked this question on the Sencha Forums as well. Here is the link to the Sencha Forum thread: http://www.sencha.com/forum/showthread.php?262804-Handle-tapStart-Event-on-a-button&p=963782#post963782

Answer 1

You can try using touchstart which can be bound to any element including button

Answer 2

I figured out a solution to my problem with help from the Sencha Touch Forums.
First I used the initConfig function to initialize my configuration of my container.
Ext.define('MyApp.view.ViewName', {
...
// Very Important, this is what I use in the controller to handle the events
xtype: 'myxtype',
...
initConfig: function () {
var me = this;
this.config = {
...
items: {
...
{
xtype: 'button',
...
listeners: {
element: 'element',
// This is where my code handles the tapstart
// (touchstart) event
touchstart: function () {
// Fire an event on the controller (me)
me.fireEvent('buttondown');
}
}
},
...
}
}
this.callParent([this.config]); // Very Important when using initConfig
}
});
Then, in my controller I added this code:
Ext.define('MyApp.controller.MainController', {
...
config: {
views: [
'ViewName',
...
],
...
},
...
init: function () {
this.control({
'myxtype': {
buttondown: this.myFunction
}
})
},
myFunction: function () {
// Do something
}
});