I have a Textfield which hides the keyboard when I touch somewhere else on the screen (through my TouchesBegan function and resign...blah). But when I touch a Textview the TouchesBegan does not get invoked and the keyboard doesn't hide! Is there any way to invoke TouchesBegan in order to hide the keyboard?
I'm assuming your UITextView is not editable as you don't want the keyboard to pop up when you touch it, so then make sure in the View properties for your UITextView that "User Interaction Enabled" is not checked. You can also write this in your ViewController as such:
textView.userInteractionEnabled = NO;
This will allow user events to pass through to the superview, and touchesBegan and those other delegate methods will be invoked.
There is also a easy way to hide the keyboard on touchesBegan: when you are using UITextView to enter the data.
Step 1. Be sure that you have extended Textviewdelegate while class declaration.
#interface YourClassName : UIViewController {
IBOutlet UITextView *txtMyView; }
step 2. set the delegate to self in view did load function.
- (void)viewDidLoad
{
txtMyView.delegate = self;
}
step 3. write the similer code in touchesbegan function with you textView name.
- (void)touchesBegan:(NSSet *)touches withEvent:(UIEvent *)event
{
[txtMyView resignFirstResponder];
[super touchesBegan:touches withEvent:event];
}
Thanks and regards.
The best method I've seen for this is to add a transparent subview that overlays the text view and handles the TouchesBegan first. You can then detect touches outside the text field and dismiss the keyboard by having the text field resign as first responder.
For example, create the overlay subview in IB or programmatically, either way. Place and size it so that it covers the text view(s), and give it a clear color. If you add the view via IB, hide it when your main view loads so that it doesn't absorb touches just yet, like so:
- (void)viewDidLoad
{
[super viewDidLoad];
overView.hidden = YES;
}
Then when the text field begins editing, unhide the view:
- (void)textFieldDidBeginEditing:(UITextField *)textField
{
overView.hidden = NO;
}
When the text field ends editing, rehide the view:
- (void)textFieldDidEndEditing:(UITextField *)textField
{
overView.hidden = YES;
}
Add a touchesBegan to detect when your unhidden overView is touched:
- (void)touchesBegan:(NSSet *)touches withEvent:(UIEvent *)event
{
UITouch *touch = [touches anyObject];
// Resign first responder if touch is outside text field
if ([touch view] != myTextField)
[myTextField resignFirstResponder];
// Send touches up the responder chain (pass them through)
[self.nextResponder touchesBegan:touches withEvent:event];
}
You can also do this through custom gestures, but that only works with iOS 4.x and, in my opinion, is more complicated.
Related
Note: I already read some questions about the UIScrollView sending touches to the subviews (this included and although I have up voted, it's not working as I intended anymore).
What I have: I have a UIScrollView with a Custom UIView (let's call it A) inside which covers the entire UIScrollView. I am also allowed to put other custom UIViews inside the A.
On the code I am doing this:
[scrollView setDelaysContentTouches:YES];
scrollView.canCancelContentTouches = NO;
What is happening: At the moment my only issue is that, if I want to move a subview inside A, I have to touch it, wait, and then move it. Exactly as stated here:
Now, the behaviour changes depending on the "length in time" of the
first touch on the UIView. If it's short, then the relative dragging
is managed as it was a scroll for the UIScrollView. If it's long, then
I'm getting the touchesMoved: events inside my UIView.
What I want: The subviews inside A should always receive priority and I shouldn't have to touch and wait. If I touch A and not a subview of it, I want the UIScrollView to receive the touches, like panning and moving around (the contentSize is bigger than the frame).
Edit 1.0
The only reason for me to have this A view inside a generic UIScrollView, is because I want to be able to zoom in/out on the A view. So I am doing the following:
- (UIView *)viewForZoomingInScrollView:(UIScrollView *)scrollView {
return customView; // this is the A view
}
In the beginning I didn't had the A view inside the UIScrollView and the only thing I did was adding the A as a subView of my UIViewController's root view and everything went well. If there is another way to enable zoom in/out I will gladly accept the answer.
Note: Thank you all for your contributions, specially to Aaron Hayman.
I was able to figure it out by doing the following on the UIScrollView sub-class I had:
-(BOOL)gestureRecognizerShouldBegin:(UIGestureRecognizer *)gestureRecognizer
{
CGPoint pointOfContact = [gestureRecognizer locationInView:self];
// The view with a tag of 200 is my A view.
return (![[self hitTest:pointOfContact withEvent:nil] isEqual:[self viewWithTag:200]]);
}
I haven't tested this, but I believe how you are handling the touch events in View A (or it's subviews) will determine how touch events are passed on. Specifically, if you're trying to use the methods: touchesBegan, touchesMoves, touchesEnded, etc instead of a UIGestureRecognizer you won't receive the touches in the way you want. Apple design the UIGestureRecognizer to handle problems like the one you're facing. Specifically, the UIScrollView uses UIPanGestureRecognizer to handle the scrolling. If you add a UIPanGestureRecognizer to each of the subviews of View A any "panning" that occurs on one of those subviews should be sent to that subview instead of the UIScrollView. However, if you're simply using the "raw" touches methods, the UIPanGestureRecognizer in UIScrollView will never be cancelled.
In general, it's almost always best to use a UIGestureRecognizer instead of processing the touches directly in the view. If you need touches processed in a way that no standard UIGestureRecognizer can provide, subclass UIGestureRecognizer and process the touches there. That way you get all the the functionality of a UIGestureRecognizer along with your own custom touch processing. I really think Apple intended for UIGestureRecognizer to replace most (if not all) of the custom touch processing code that developers use on UIView. It allows for code-reuse and it's a lot easier to deal with when mitigating what code processes what touch event.
Jacky, I needed a similar thing: Within a building plan (your A, in my case a subclass of UIScrollView), let the user place and resize objects (call them Bs). Here's a sketch of what it took me to get at this behavior:
In the superview's (A) initWithFrame: method, set these two:
self.canCancelContentTouches = YES;
self.delaysContentTouches = NO;
This will ensure taps on B are immediately routed to the Bs.
In the embedded B, stop the superview A from cancelling taps, so it does not interfere with a gesture started on the B.
In the touchesBegan: method, search the view hierarchy upwards (using superview property of the views) until you find a UIScrollView, and set its canCancelContentTouches to NO. Remember the superview you changed, and restore this property in the touchesEnded and touchesCancelled methods of B.
I'd be interested whether this works for you as well. Good Luck!
nobi
I think you had better use "touchesBegan,touchesMoved,touchesEnded" to pass the event.
you can do like this:
you should make a mainView . It has 2 property. One is yourScrollView A , and One is yourCustomView.
`[yourScrollView addSubviews:yourCustomView];
[mainView addSubviews:yourScrollView];`
and then write your touches method in the mainView.m like this (ignor the scrollView statment)
-(void)touchesBegan:(NSSet *)touches withEvent:(UIEvent *)event
{
UITouch *mytouch=[[touches allObjects] objectAtIndex:0];
if ([[touches allObjects] isKindOfClass:[yourCustomView class]])
{
//do whatever you want
}
}
-(void)touchesMoved:(NSSet *)touches withEvent:(UIEvent *)event
{
UITouch *mytouch=[[touches allObjects] objectAtIndex:0];
if ([[touches allObjects] isKindOfClass:[yourCustomView class]])
{
//do whatever you want
}
}
The last step: pass the event to the subview of the scrollView(your A).
#import "yourScrollView.h"
#implementation yourScrollView
- (id)initWithFrame:(CGRect)frame {
self = [super initWithFrame:frame];
if (self) {
// Initialization code.
}
return self;
}
- (void)touchesBegan:(NSSet *)touches withEvent:(UIEvent *)event{
[super touchesBegan:touches withEvent:event];
if(!self.dragging)
[[self nextResponder] touchesBegan:touches withEvent:event];
}
- (void)touchesMoved:(NSSet *)touches withEvent:(UIEvent *)event{
[super touchesMoved:touches withEvent:event];
if(!self.dragging)
[[self nextResponder] touchesMoved:touches withEvent:event];
}
- (void)touchesEnded:(NSSet *)touches withEvent:(UIEvent *)event{
[super touchesEnded:touches withEvent:event];
if(!self.dragging)
[[self nextResponder] touchesEnded:touches withEvent:event];
}
- (void)dealloc {
[super dealloc];
}
#end
wish to help you
I have UIViewControllerand UITableView as child in the view,
what I want to do is when I touch any row I am displaying a view at bottom. I want to hide that view if the user touch any where else then rows or the bottomView.
The problem is when I click on UITableView it doesn't fires touchesEnded event.
Now how can I detect touch on UITableView and distinguish it with row selection event.
Thanks.
No need to subclass anything, you can add a UITapGestureRecognizer to the UITableView and absorb the gesture or not depending on your criteria.
In your viewDidLoad:
UITapGestureRecognizer *tap = [[UITapGestureRecognizer alloc] initWithTarget:self action:#selector(didTapOnTableView:)];
[self.myTableView addGestureRecognizer:tap];
Then, implement your action like this for the criteria:
-(void) didTapOnTableView:(UIGestureRecognizer*) recognizer {
CGPoint tapLocation = [recognizer locationInView:self.myTableView];
NSIndexPath *indexPath = [self.myTableView indexPathForRowAtPoint:tapLocation];
if (indexPath) { //we are in a tableview cell, let the gesture be handled by the view
recognizer.cancelsTouchesInView = NO;
} else { // anywhere else, do what is needed for your case
[self.navigationController popViewControllerAnimated:YES];
}
}
And note that if you just want to simply pick up clicks anywhere on the table, but not on any buttons in cell rows, you need only use the first code fragment above. A typical example is when you have a UITableView and there is also a UISearchBar. You want to eliminate the search bar when the user clicks, scrolls, etc the table view. Code example...
-(void)viewDidLoad {
[super viewDidLoad];
etc ...
[self _prepareTable];
}
-(void)_prepareTable {
self.tableView.separatorStyle = UITableViewCellSeparatorStyleNone;
self.tableView.allowsSelection = NO;
etc...
UITapGestureRecognizer *anyTouch =
[[UITapGestureRecognizer alloc]
initWithTarget:self action:#selector(tableTap)];
[self.tableView addGestureRecognizer:anyTouch];
}
// Always drop the keyboard when the user taps on the table:
// This will correctly NOT affect any buttons in cell rows:
-(void)tableTap {
[self.searchBar resignFirstResponder];
}
// You probably also want to drop the keyboard when the user is
// scrolling around looking at the table. If so:
-(void)scrollViewDidScroll:(UIScrollView *)scrollView {
[self.searchBar resignFirstResponder];
}
// Finally you may or may not want to drop the keyboard when
// a button in one cell row is clicked. If so:
-(void)clickedSomeCellButton... {
[self.searchBar resignFirstResponder];
...
}
Hope it helps someone.
You should forward the touch event to the view's controller.
Subclass your tableview control and then override the method:
- (void)touchesBegan:(NSSet *)touches withEvent:(UIEvent *)event
{
[super touchesBegan:touches withEvent:event]; //let the tableview handle cell selection
[self.nextResponder touchesBegan:touches withEvent:event]; // give the controller a chance for handling touch events
}
then , you can do what you want in the controller's touch methods.
I just stumbled onto what may be a solution for your problem. Use this code when you create your table view:
tableView.canCancelContentTouches = NO;
Without setting this to NO, the touch events are cancelled as soon as there is even a slight bit of vertical movement in your table view (if you put NSLog statements in your code, you'll see that touchesCancelled is called as soon as the table starts scrolling vertically).
I was facing the problem since a long time and didn't got any working solution. Finally I choose to go with a alternative. I know technically this is not the solution but this may help someone looking for the same for sure.
In my case I want to select a row that will show some option after that I touch anywhere on table or View I want to hide those options or do any task except the row selected previously for that I did following:
Set touch events for the view. This will do the task when you touch anywhere on the view except the table view.
TableView's didSelectRowAtIndexPath do following
- (void)tableView:(UITableView*)tableView didSelectRowAtIndexPath:(NSIndexPath*)indexPath {
if(indexPath.row != previousSelectedRow && previousSelectedRow != -1) {
// hide options or whatever you want to do
previousSelectedRow = -1;
}
else {
// show your options or other things
previousSelectedRow = indexPath.row;
}
}
I know that this is older post and not a good technical solution but this worked for me. I am posting this answer because this may help someone for sure.
Note: The code written here may have spell mistakes because directly typed here. :)
Try this methods:
- (void)scrollViewWillBeginDragging:(UIScrollView *)scrollView
{
}
- (void)scrollViewDidEndDragging:(UIScrollView *)scrollView willDecelerate:(BOOL)decelerate
{
}
Use scrollViewDidEndDragging like alternative of touchesEnded. Hope it helps.
To receive touch events on the UITableView use:
- (void)touchesBegan:(NSSet *)touches withEvent:(UIEvent *)event
{
//<my stuff>
[super touchesBegan:touches withEvent:event];
}
- (void)touchesMoved:(NSSet *)touches withEvent:(UIEvent *)event
{
//<my stuff>
[super touchesMoved:touches withEvent:event];
}
- (void)touchesEnded:(NSSet*)touches withEvent:(UIEvent*)event
{
//<my stuff>
[super touchesEnded:touches withEvent:event];
}
- (void)touchesCancelled:(NSSet*)touches withEvent:(UIEvent*)event
{
//<my stuff>
[super touchesCancelled:touches withEvent:event];
}
In your controller class declare a method which removes the bottom view. Something like this:
-(IBAction)bottomViewRemove:(id)sender {
[bottomView removeFromSuperview];
}
In Interface Builder, select your view and in the identity inspector in the custom class section, change the class from UIView to UIControl. After that go to the connections inspector and connect the TouchUpInside event to the method declared above. Hope this helps.
I've seen some threads about how to dismiss the Keyboard when a UITextField loses focus, but it did not work for me and I don't know how. The "touchesBegan:withEvent:" in the following code, never gets called. Why?
- (void)touchesBegan:(NSSet *)touches withEvent:(UIEvent *)event {
UITouch *touch = [[event allTouches] anyObject];
if ([self.textFieldOnFocus isFirstResponder] && [touch view] != self.textFieldOnFocus) {
[textFieldOnFocus resignFirstResponder];
}
[super touchesBegan:touches withEvent:event];
}
P.S.: This code has been inserted in the view controller which has a UITableView. The UITextField is in a cell from this table.
So, my opinion is: this method is not being called, cause the touch occurs on the UITableView from my ViewController. So, I think, that to I should have to subclass the UITableView, to use this method as I have seen on other Threads, but it may have a easier way.
Could you please help me? Thanks a lot!
Make sure you set the delegate of the UITextField to First Responder in IB. And I just put a custom (invisible) UIButton over the screen and set up an IBAction to hide the keyboard. Ex:
- (IBAction)hideKeyboard {
[someTextField resignFirstResponder];
}
With that hooked up to a UIButton.
Here is my solution, somewhat inspired by several posts in SO: Simply handle the tap gesture in the context of the View, the user is 'obviously' trying to leave the focus of the UITextField.
-(void)handleViewTapGesture:(UITapGestureRecognizer *)gesture
{
[self endEditing:YES];
}
This is implemented in the ViewController. The handler is added as a gesture recognizer to the appropriate View in the View property's setter:
-(void) setLoginView:(LoginView *)loginView
{
_loginView = loginView;
UITapGestureRecognizer *tapRecognizer = [[UITapGestureRecognizer alloc] initWithTarget:self.loginView action:#selector(handleTapGesture:)];
[tapRecognizer setDelegate:self]; // self implements the UIGestureRecognizerDelegate protocol
[self.loginView addGestureRecognizer:tapRecognizer];
}
The handler could be defined in the View as well. If you are unfamiliar with handling gestures, see Apple's docs are tons of samples elsewhere.
I should mention that you will need some additional code to make sure other controls get taps, you need a delegate that implements the UIGestureRecognizerDelegate protocol and this method:
- (BOOL)gestureRecognizer:(UIGestureRecognizer *)gestureRecognizer shouldReceiveTouch:(UITouch *)touch
{
if ([touch.view isKindOfClass:[UIButton class]]) // Customize appropriately.
return NO; // Don't let the custom gestureRecognizer handle the touch
return YES;
}
-(void)touchesEnded: (NSSet *)touches withEvent: (UIEvent *)event
{
for (UIView* view in self.view.subviews)
{
if ([view isKindOfClass:[UITextField class]])
[view resignFirstResponder];
}
}
I am developing an iPhone application which requires a multiline text field (UITextView) to capture some text.
When the user touches inside the textView it becomes firstResponder and displays the keyboard. What I really need it to do is remove the keyboard when the user is finished. Normally with a text field the return/done button press would signal the end of typing and I would use the delegate to resign first responder. However with a multiline textview I want the user to be able to add a new line so that is not possible.
My next option would be to resign first responder if there is a touch up outside of the text view. The problem here is that there are no events declared on UITextView which I can see in interface builder.
How can I create a multiline text field in an iPhone app which will release first responder at a sensible time when the user is done with it?
You can use a DONE button on the navigation bar:
- (void)viewDidLoad {
[super viewDidLoad];
self.navigationItem.rightBarButtonItem = [[UIBarButtonItem alloc] initWithBarButtonSystemItem:UIBarButtonSystemItemDone target:self action:#selector(doneAction:)];
}
to dismiss the keyboard, handle the event with something like:
- (void) doneAction: (id) sender{ [textView resignFirstResponder]; }
(remember .h file declarations)
I'm guessing you are lamenting the "missing" Done button on the keyboard which is return on a multi line UItextView, correct me if i'm wrong.
The obvious approach seems to have another button on your interface that resigns first responder.
I don't think some clever code that hides the keyboard upon some event would be very intuitive to use.
The Apple Notes application uses its top right done button to resign first responder, an approach like this seems sensible.
//If user touches outside of the keypad, then the keypad will go away
- (void)touchesBegan:(NSSet *)touches withEvent:(UIEvent *)event {
UITouch *touch = [[event allTouches] anyObject];
if (touch.tapCount >= 1) {
[ZLabel resignFirstResponder];
}
}
You can create an invisible button that covers all screen and than add a method to it. I think sth like this will work.
- (IBAction)backgroundClick:(id)sender{
[textView resignFirstResponder];
}
If you are completely set on having the 'done' key on the keyboard, the method I use is check the last character in the UITextView when the contents changes. If the last character is a new line, then the user has hit the done button. I would second Neil's view that there should be another button, but sometimes the customer gets what the customer wants.
Obviously you will have to set the delegate for the UITextView to point to the class in which this method lives. The - (void)textViewDidChange:(UITextView *)inTextView method is part of the UITextViewDelegate protocol.
- (void)textViewDidChange:(UITextView *)inTextView {
NSString *text = inTextView.text;
if ([text length] > 0 && [text characterAtIndex:[text length] -1] == '\n') {
message = [text substringToIndex:[text length] -1];
[delegate messageEdited];
[self removeFromSuperview];
}
}
(BOOL)textView:(UITextView *)textView shouldChangeTextInRange:(NSRange)range replacementText:(NSString *)text {
[txtView resignFirstResponder];
return YES;
}
I'm trying to handle touches on a iPhone's UITextView. I successfully managed to handle taps and other touch events by creating a subclass of UIImageViews for example and implementing the touchesBegan method...however that doesn't work with the UITextView apparently :(
The UITextView has user interaction and multi touch enabled, just to be sure...no no joy. Anyone managed to handle this?
UITextView (subclass of UIScrollView) includes a lot of event processing. It handles copy and paste and data detectors. That said, it is probably a bug that it does not pass unhandled events on.
There is a simple solution: you can subclass UITextView and impement your own touchesEnded (and other event handling messages) in your own versions, you should call[super touchesBegan:touches withEvent:event]; inside every touch handling method.
#import "MyTextView.h" //MyTextView:UITextView
#implementation MyTextView
- (void)touchesBegan:(NSSet *)touches withEvent:(UIEvent *)event{
NSLog(#"touchesBegan");
}
- (void)touchesMoved:(NSSet *)touches withEvent:(UIEvent *)event{
[super touchesBegan:touches withEvent:event];
NSLog(#"touchesMoved");
}
- (void)touchesEnded:(NSSet *)touches withEvent:(UIEvent *)event{
NSLog(#"****touchesEnded");
[self.nextResponder touchesEnded: touches withEvent:event];
NSLog(#"****touchesEnded");
[super touchesEnded:touches withEvent:event];
NSLog(#"****touchesEnded");
}
- (void)touchesCancelled:(NSSet *)touches withEvent:(UIEvent *)event{
[super touches... etc];
NSLog(#"touchesCancelled");
}
If you want to handle single/double/triple tap on UITextView, you can delegate UIGestureRecongnizer and add gesture recognizers on your textview.
Heres sameple code (in viewDidLoad):
UITapGestureRecognizer *singleTap = [[UITapGestureRecognizer alloc] initWithTarget:self action:#selector(handleSingleTap)];
//modify this number to recognizer number of tap
[singleTap setNumberOfTapsRequired:1];
[self.textView addGestureRecognizer:singleTap];
[singleTap release];
and
-(void)handleSingleTap{
//handle tap in here
NSLog(#"Single tap on view");
}
Hope this help :D
Better solution (Without swizzling anything or using any Private API :D )
As explained below, adding new UITapGestureRecognizers to the textview does not have the expected results, handler methods are never called. That is because the UITextView has some tap gesture recognizer setup already and I think their delegate does not allow my gesture recognizer to work properly and changing their delegate could lead to even worse results, I believe.
Luckily the UITextView has the gesture recognizer I want already setup, the problem is that it changes according to the state of the view (i.e.: set of gesture recognizers are different when inputing Japanese than when inputing English and also when not being in editing mode).
I solved this by overriding these in a subclass of UITextView:
- (void)addGestureRecognizer:(UIGestureRecognizer *)gestureRecognizer
{
[super addGestureRecognizer:gestureRecognizer];
// Check the new gesture recognizer is the same kind as the one we want to implement
// Note:
// This works because `UITextTapRecognizer` is a subclass of `UITapGestureRecognizer`
// and the text view has some `UITextTapRecognizer` added :)
if ([gestureRecognizer isKindOfClass:[UITapGestureRecognizer class]]) {
UITapGestureRecognizer *tgr = (UITapGestureRecognizer *)gestureRecognizer;
if ([tgr numberOfTapsRequired] == 1 &&
[tgr numberOfTouchesRequired] == 1) {
// If found then add self to its targets/actions
[tgr addTarget:self action:#selector(_handleOneFingerTap:)];
}
}
}
- (void)removeGestureRecognizer:(UIGestureRecognizer *)gestureRecognizer
{
// Check the new gesture recognizer is the same kind as the one we want to implement
// Read above note
if ([gestureRecognizer isKindOfClass:[UITapGestureRecognizer class]]) {
UITapGestureRecognizer *tgr = (UITapGestureRecognizer *)gestureRecognizer;
if ([tgr numberOfTapsRequired] == 1 &&
[tgr numberOfTouchesRequired] == 1) {
// If found then remove self from its targets/actions
[tgr removeTarget:self action:#selector(_handleOneFingerTap:)];
}
}
[super removeGestureRecognizer:gestureRecognizer];
}
- (void)_handleOneFingerTap:(UITapGestureRecognizer *)tgr
{
NSDictionary *userInfo = [NSDictionary dictionaryWithObject:tgr forKey:#"UITapGestureRecognizer"];
[[NSNotificationCenter defaultCenter] postNotificationName:#"TextViewOneFingerTapNotification" object:self userInfo:userInfo];
// Or I could have handled the action here directly ...
}
By doing this way, no matter when the textview changes its gesture recognizers, we will always catch the tap gesture recognizer we want → Hence, our handler method will be called accordingly :)
Conclusion:
If you want to add a gesture recognizers to the UITextView, you have to check the text view does not have it already.
If it does not have it, just do the regular way. (Create your gesture recognizer, set it up, and add it to the text view) and you are done!.
If it does have it, then you probably need to do something similar as above.
Old Answer
I came up with this answer by swizzling a private method because previous answers have cons and they don't work as expected. Here, rather than modifying the tapping behavior of the UITextView, I just intercept the called method and then call the original method.
Further Explanation
UITextView has a bunch of specialized UIGestureRecognizers, each of these has a target and a action but their target is not the UITextView itself, it's an object of the forward class UITextInteractionAssistant. (This assistant is a #package ivar of UITextView but is forward definition is in the public header: UITextField.h).
UITextTapRecognizer recognizes taps and calls oneFingerTap: on the UITextInteractionAssistant so we want to intercept that call :)
#import <objc/runtime.h>
// Prototype and declaration of method that is going be swizzled
// When called: self and sender are supposed to be UITextInteractionAssistant and UITextTapRecognizer objects respectively
void proxy_oneFingerTap(id self, SEL _cmd, id sender);
void proxy_oneFingerTap(id self, SEL _cmd, id sender){
[[NSNotificationCenter defaultCenter] postNotificationName:#"TextViewOneFinderTap" object:self userInfo:nil];
if ([self respondsToSelector:#selector(proxy_oneFingerTap:)]) {
[self performSelector:#selector(proxy_oneFingerTap:) withObject:sender];
}
}
...
// subclass of UITextView
// Add above method and swizzle it with.
- (void)doTrickForCatchingTaps
{
Class class = [UITextInteractionAssistant class]; // or below line to avoid ugly warnings
//Class class = NSClassFromString(#"UITextInteractionAssistant");
SEL new_selector = #selector(proxy_oneFingerTap:);
SEL orig_selector = #selector(oneFingerTap:);
// Add method dynamically because UITextInteractionAssistant is a private class
BOOL success = class_addMethod(class, new_selector, (IMP)proxy_oneFingerTap, "v#:#");
if (success) {
Method originalMethod = class_getInstanceMethod(class, orig_selector);
Method newMethod = class_getInstanceMethod(class, new_selector);
if ((originalMethod != nil) && (newMethod != nil)){
method_exchangeImplementations(originalMethod, newMethod); // Method swizzle
}
}
}
//... And in the UIViewController, let's say
[textView doTrickForCatchingTaps];
[[NSNotificationCenter defaultCenter] addObserver:self selector:#selector(textViewWasTapped:) name:#"TextViewOneFinderTap" object:nil];
- (void)textViewWasTapped:(NSNotification *)noti{
NSLog(#"%#", NSStringFromSelector:#selector(_cmd));
}
You need to assign the UITextView instance.delegate = self (assuming you want to take care of the events in the same controller)
And make sure to implement the UITextViewDelegate protocol in the interface... ex:
#interface myController : UIViewController <UITextViewDelegate>{
}
Then you can implement any of the following
- (BOOL)textViewShouldBeginEditing:(UITextView *)textView;
- (BOOL)textViewShouldEndEditing:(UITextView *)textView;
- (void)textViewDidBeginEditing:(UITextView *)textView;
- (void)textViewDidEndEditing:(UITextView *)textView;
- (BOOL)textView:(UITextView *)textView shouldChangeTextInRange:(NSRange)range replacementText:(NSString *)text;
- (void)textViewDidChange:(UITextView *)textView;
- (void)textViewDidChangeSelection:(UITextView *)textView;
I'm using a textview as a subview of a larger view. I need the user to be able to scroll the textview, but not edit it. I want to detect a single tap on the textview's superview, including on the textview itself.
Of course, I ran into the problem that the textview swallows up the touches that begin on it. Disabling user interaction would fix this, but then the user won't be able to scroll the textview.
My solution was to make the textview editable and use the textview's shouldBeginEditing delegate method to detect a tap in the textview. I simply return NO, thereby preventing editing, but now I know that the textview (and thus the superview) has been tapped. Between this method and the superview's touchesEnded method I have what I need.
I know that this won't work for people who want to get access to the actual touches, but if all you want to do is detect a tap, this approach works!
How about make a UIScrollView and [scrollView addSubview: textview] which makes it possible to scroll textview?
You can also send a Touch Down event. Wire-up this event through the Interface Builder.
Then add code in your event handler
- (IBAction)onAppIDTap:(id)sender {
//Your code
}