Remove all UITextView's Gesture Recognizers - iphone

Question

I am developing an app that has a UITextView within a custom UITableViewCell in a tableview. The tableviewcell has several gesture recognizers. My problem is that the textview is responding to touches before the tableViewCell's recognizers. I have a long tap for moving the cell to another location but instead the textview will try and select it's text for copy/paste/magnifying glass functions. Also, the textview is swallowing touches from the tableview itself and so scrolling will not function within the tableview if you begin the scroll touching the textview.
even with the editable property set to false the textview still wants to select text and show the magnifying glass.
Initially I had everything working using a UITextField instead of a UITextView but I need support for multiple lines of text.
So how can I keep the textview from swallowing any touch event? Any suggestions or thoughts would be greatly appreciated.

Answer 1

Here's how we handle UITextView user interaction that is contained within a UITableViewCell:
1) Your UIViewController should conform to UITableViewDataSource, UITableViewDelegate and UITextViewDelegate :
#import <UIKit/UIKit.h>
#interace MyExampleController : UIViewController <UITableViewDataSource, UITableViewDelegate, UITextViewDelegate>
2) Initially, the text view's userInteractionEnabled property is set to NO
- (UITableViewCell *)tableView:(UITableView *)tableView cellForRowAtIndexPath:(NSIndexPath *)indexPath
{
static NSString *textViewCellIdentifier = #"MyTextViewCellIdentifier";
MyTextViewViewCell *cell = [tableView dequeueReusableCellWithIdentifier:textViewCellIdentifier];
if (!cell)
{
// ... do your stuff to create the cell...
cell.textView.userInteractionEnabled = NO;
cell.textView.delegate = self;
}
// do whatever else to set the cell text, etc you need...
return cell;
}
3) Check if a text view cell was tapped via UITableViewDelegate method:
- (void)tableView:(UITableView *)tableView didSelectRowAtIndexPath:(NSIndexPath *)indexPath
{
UITableViewCell *cell = [tableView cellForRowAtIndexPath:indexPath];
BOOL isTextViewCell = ... // do your check here to determine if this cell has a text view
if (isTextViewCell)
{
[[(MyTextTableViewCell *)cell textView] setUserInteractionEnabled:YES];
[[(MyTextTableViewCell *)cell textView] becomeFirstResponder];
}
else
{
// ... do whatever else you do...
}
}
4) Check for \n to determine when to have the textView resign first responder (passed when user presses the return key):
- (BOOL)textView:(UITextView *)textView shouldChangeTextInRange:(NSRange)range replacementText:(NSString *)text
{
if ([text rangeOfString:#"\n"].location != NSNotFound)
{
[textView resignFirstResponder];
textView.
return NO;
}
return YES;
}
5) Save text into your model once after the text view has resigned (ends editing):
- (void)textViewDidEndEditing:(UITextView *)textView
{
NSString *text = textView.text;
// do your saving here
}
This was mostly written on the spot, so there may be some minor errors in there, but hopefully you get the general idea.
Good luck.