How to cancel a sequence of UITouch events?

Question

I have a UIImage view that responds to touch events. I want to cancel the touch sequence, i.e., further calls to touchesMoved:, if the touch goes o

Answer 1

I've faced the same problem recently and found a standard way to solve it. You can use [[UIApplication sharedApplication] beginIgnoringInteractionEvents] to stop delivering touchesMoved events to your whole app. Make sure to enable them using [[UIApplication sharedApplication] endIgnoringInteractionEvents] when you need to receive touches again.