UIGestureRecognizer blocks subview for handling touch events

Question

I\'m trying to figure out how this is done the right way. I\'ve tried to depict the situation:

Answer 1

I was displaying a dropdown subview that had its own tableview. As a result, the touch.view would sometimes return classes like UITableViewCell. I had to step through the superclass(es) to ensure it was the subclass I thought it was:

-(BOOL)gestureRecognizer:(UIGestureRecognizer *)gestureRecognizer shouldReceiveTouch:(UITouch *)touch
{
    UIView *view = touch.view;
    while (view.class != UIView.class) {
        // Check if superclass is of type dropdown
        if (view.class == dropDown.class) { // dropDown is an ivar; replace with your own
            NSLog(@"Is of type dropdown; returning NO");
            return NO;
        } else {
            view = view.superview;
        }
    }

    return YES;
}

Answer 2

I was also doing a popover and this is how I did it

func didTap(sender: UITapGestureRecognizer) {

    let tapLocation = sender.locationInView(tableView)

    if let _ = tableView.indexPathForRowAtPoint(tapLocation) {
        sender.cancelsTouchesInView = false
    }
    else {
        delegate?.menuDimissed()
    }
}

Answer 3

The blocking of touch events to subviews is the default behaviour. You can change this behaviour:

UITapGestureRecognizer *r = [[UITapGestureRecognizer alloc] initWithTarget:self action:@selector(agentPickerTapped:)];
r.cancelsTouchesInView = NO;
[agentPicker addGestureRecognizer:r];

Answer 4

You can turn it off and on.... in my code i did something like this as i needed to turn it off when the keyboard was not showing, you can apply it to your situation:

call this is viewdidload etc:

NSNotificationCenter    *center = [NSNotificationCenter defaultCenter];
[center addObserver:self selector:@selector(notifyShowKeyboard:) name:UIKeyboardDidShowNotification object:nil];
[center addObserver:self selector:@selector(notifyHideKeyboard:) name:UIKeyboardWillHideNotification object:nil];

then create the two methods:

-(void) notifyShowKeyboard:(NSNotification *)inNotification 
{
    tap.enabled=true;  // turn the gesture on
}

-(void) notifyHideKeyboard:(NSNotification *)inNotification 
{
    tap.enabled=false;  //turn the gesture off so it wont consume the touch event
}

What this does is disables the tap. I had to turn tap into a instance variable and release it in dealloc though.