Touch and drag a UIButton around, but don't trigger it when releasing the finger

Question

I\'m trying to allow some UIButton instances on one of my views to be touched and dragged around the screen (eventually with momentum, but that\'s for later!). I ha

Answer 1

You could use a UIPanGestureRecognizer and tell it to cancel touches in view...

- (void)viewDidLoad
{
    [super viewDidLoad];

    UIPanGestureRecognizer *panRecognizer;
    panRecognizer = [[UIPanGestureRecognizer alloc] initWithTarget:self
                                                            action:@selector(wasDragged:)];
    // cancel touches so that touchUpInside touches are ignored
    panRecognizer.cancelsTouchesInView = YES;
    [[self draggableButton] addGestureRecognizer:panRecognizer];

}

- (void)wasDragged:(UIPanGestureRecognizer *)recognizer {
    UIButton *button = (UIButton *)recognizer.view;
    CGPoint translation = [recognizer translationInView:button];

    button.center = CGPointMake(button.center.x + translation.x, button.center.y + translation.y);
    [recognizer setTranslation:CGPointZero inView:button];
}

- (IBAction)buttonWasTapped:(id)sender {
    NSLog(@"%s - button tapped",__FUNCTION__);
}