UIButton inside UITableViewCell steals touch from UITableView

Question

I have a problem similar to this one but answer provided there doesn\'t help much. I have UITableView with some custom UITableViewCells, those cells ha

Answer 1

You can change the behaviour by overriding touchesShouldCancelInContentView: in the UITableView. For this to work you'll need to replace the table view with this subclass, either in loadView or in your xib file.

@interface AutoCancelTableView: UITableView
@end

@implementation AutoCancelTableView

//
// Overriding touchesShouldCanceInContentView changes the behaviour
// of button selection in a table view to act like cell selection -
// dragging while clicking a button will cancel the click and allow
// the scrolling to occur
//
- (BOOL)touchesShouldCancelInContentView:(UIView *)view {
    return YES;
}

@end