Cocos2d: gesture recognizers and CCMenu - touch

Question

I have been following this tutorial on integrating UIKit with a CCLayer. Basically all I want to do is to add gesture recognizers handlers to my layer and trigger my game actions according to those.
However I do have a problem (which doesn't seem new) as the CCMenu items I added to the layer are not absorbing the clicks/taps.
In brief: I do have a layer where I integrated all the code suggested by Ray and it works perfectly except that the CCMenu doesn't absorbe clicks.
I read the post but I am not quiet comfortable with the idea of modifying CCNode and adding the method to verify if the touch is in space etc..
I thought that the easier way (for me) would be to just pass the touch on the CCMenu if the touch is over the CCMenu area.
Here a code snippet:
- (void)handleTap:(UITapGestureRecognizer *)tapRecognizer{
UIView * view = [[CCDirector sharedDirector] view];
CGPoint point = [self convertYTouch:[tapRecognizer locationInView:view] ];
if (CGRectContainsPoint([pauseMenu boundingBox], point)) {
[myMenu HowDoIPassTheTouchToTheMenu]
}
else{
//Handle single tap
}
}
Any idea on how I can pass the touch to the menu?
I tried to play around with TouchDispatcher and priority but can't get it to work.
EDIT: I wrote this method but doesn't seem to help much
-(void) activateItemForTouch:(CGPoint)point
{
if( state_ != kCCMenuStateWaiting || !visible_ || ! enabled_)
return;
for( CCNode *c = self.parent; c != nil; c = c.parent )
if( c.visible == NO )
return;
CCLOG(#"in activate item for touch");
selectedItem_ = [self itemForTouchLocation:point];
[selectedItem_ selected];
[selectedItem_ unselected];
[selectedItem_ activate];
state_ = kCCMenuStateWaiting;
}
-(CCMenuItem *) itemForTouchLocation: (CGPoint) touchLocation
{
touchLocation = [[CCDirector sharedDirector] convertToGL: touchLocation];
CCMenuItem* item;
CCARRAY_FOREACH(children_, item){
// ignore invisible and disabled items: issue #779, #866
if ( [item visible] && [item isEnabled] ) {
CGPoint local = [item convertToNodeSpace:touchLocation];
CGRect r = [item rect];
r.origin = CGPointZero;
if( CGRectContainsPoint( r, local ) )
return item;
}
}
return nil;
}
EDIT BIS:
I also tried to implement the UIGestureRecognizerDelegate protocol but even if I set gestureRecognizer to FALSE it never passes the gesture/touch to the menu.
-(BOOL) gestureRecognizer:(UIGestureRecognizer *)gestureRecognizer shouldReceiveTouch:(UITouch *)touch{
CCLOG(#"should receive");
return FALSE;
}