Drag + Rotation using UIPanGestureRecognizer touch getting off track

Question

I am doing some drag and rotation calculations using UIPanGestureRecognizer. The rotation angle is correct, and the drag location is almost correct. The problem is that as y

Answer 1

I've finally solved this issue and have it working perfectly. Persistence am I right??

Here is the code for the solution with a few comments to explain the changes.

- (void)handlePan:(UIPanGestureRecognizer *)gesture
{
    if (gesture.state == UIGestureRecognizerStateBegan) {
        // Get the location of the touch in the view we're dragging.
        CGPoint location = [gesture locationInView:dragView];

        // Now to fix the rotation we set a new anchor point to where our finger touched. Remember AnchorPoints are 0.0 - 1.0 so we need to convert from points to that by dividing
        [dragView.layer setAnchorPoint:CGPointMake(location.x/dragView.frame.size.width, location.y/dragView.frame.size.height)];


    } else if (gesture.state == UIGestureRecognizerStateChanged) {
        // Calculate Our New Angle
        CGPoint p1 = button.center;
        CGPoint p2 = dragView.center;

        float adjacent = p2.x-p1.x;
        float opposite = p2.y-p1.y;

        float angle = atan2f(adjacent, opposite); 

        // Get the location of our touch, this time in the context of the superview.
        CGPoint location = [gesture locationInView:self.view];

        // Set the center to that exact point, We don't need complicated original point translations anymore because we have changed the anchor point.
        [dragView setCenter:CGPointMake(location.x, location.y)];

        // Rotate our view by the calculated angle around our new anchor point.
        [dragView setTransform:CGAffineTransformMakeRotation(angle*-1)];

    }
}

Hope my month+ struggle and solution helps someone else in the future. Happy Coding :)

Answer 2

Based on touch events https://github.com/kirbyt/KTOneFingerRotationGestureRecognizer

Helped me to solve similar problem