UITableView: custom gestures make it scrolling no more - iphone

Question

I have an UIViewController which contains a UITableView (subclassed) and another UIView (subclassed). They are on the same hierarchy level but the UIView is added last so it is the frontmost.
I overrid touchesBegan/Moved/Ended to intercept the Gestures from the top UIView: my goal is to get the selected UITableViewCell and, if double tapped, create an ImageView to be dragged around.
I appear to get it done but now I cannot scroll the UITableView anymore, even though I forward the touch events.
Here are the methods for the UIView:
- (void)touchesBegan:(NSSet *)touches withEvent:(UIEvent *)event{
NSLog(#"BO");
UITouch * touch = [touches anyObject];
CGPoint tPoint = [touch locationInView:self];
InventoryViewController * invViewCont = self.viewController;
UITableView * invTab = invViewCont.inventoryTableView;
[invTab deselectRowAtIndexPath:[invTab indexPathForSelectedRow]
animated:YES];
NSArray * cells = [invTab visibleCells];
BOOL found = NO;
for (UITableViewCell * cell in cells)
{
if (CGRectContainsPoint(cell.frame, tPoint))
{
[cell touchesBegan:touches withEvent:event];
found = YES;
break;
}
}
if (!found)
{
[invViewCont.inventoryTableView touchesBegan:touches withEvent:event];
}
}
- (void)touchesMoved:(NSSet *)touches withEvent:(UIEvent *)event{
NSLog(#"Mo");
UITouch * touch = [touches anyObject];
CGPoint tPoint = [touch locationInView:self];
copyObj.center = tPoint;
InventoryViewController * invViewCont = self.viewController;
UITableView * invTab = invViewCont.inventoryTableView;
[invTab deselectRowAtIndexPath:[invTab indexPathForSelectedRow]
animated:YES];
NSArray * cells = [invTab visibleCells];
BOOL found = NO;
for (UITableViewCell * cell in cells)
{
if (CGRectContainsPoint(cell.frame, tPoint))
{
[cell touchesMoved:touches withEvent:event];
found = YES;
break;
}
}
if (!found)
{
[invViewCont.inventoryTableView touchesMoved:touches withEvent:event];
}
}
- (void)touchesEnded:(NSSet *)touches withEvent:(UIEvent *)event{
UITouch * touch = [touches anyObject];
if ([touch tapCount] == 2)
{
[self desubCopyView];
}
CGPoint tPoint = [touch locationInView:self];
copyObj.center = tPoint;
InventoryViewController * invViewCont = self.viewController;
UITableView * invTab = invViewCont.inventoryTableView;
[invTab deselectRowAtIndexPath:[invTab indexPathForSelectedRow]
animated:YES];
NSArray * cells = [invTab visibleCells];
BOOL found = NO;
for (UITableViewCell * cell in cells)
{
if (CGRectContainsPoint(cell.frame, tPoint))
{
[cell touchesEnded:touches withEvent:event];
//[cell.imageView touchesEnded:touches withEvent:event];
found = YES;
break;
}
}
if (!found)
{
[invViewCont.inventoryTableView touchesEnded:touches withEvent:event];
}
}
And here are those in the UITableViewCell
-(void)touchesBegan:(NSSet *)touches withEvent:(UIEvent *)event{
UITouch * touch = [touches anyObject];
if ([touch tapCount] == 2)
{
CGPoint tPoint = [touch locationInView:self];
NSLog(#"CellX %lf CY %lf", tPoint.x, tPoint.y);
UIGraphicsBeginImageContext(self.bounds.size);
[self.layer renderInContext:UIGraphicsGetCurrentContext()];
UIImage *viewImage = UIGraphicsGetImageFromCurrentImageContext();
UIGraphicsEndImageContext();
UIImageView * newView = [[UIImageView alloc] initWithImage:viewImage];
[dragArea addSubview:newView];
dragArea.copyObj = newView;
[newView release];
[UIView beginAnimations:nil context:nil];
[UIView setAnimationDuration:0.4];
dragArea.copyObj.transform = CGAffineTransformMakeScale(1.3, 1.3);
[UIView commitAnimations];
tPoint = [self convertPoint:tPoint toView:dragArea];
dragArea.copyObj.center = tPoint;
}
[super touchesBegan:touches withEvent:event];
}
- (void)touchesMoved:(NSSet *)touches withEvent:(UIEvent *)event{
NSLog(#"MOV %#", self.imageView.image);
[super touchesMoved:touches withEvent:event];
}
- (void)touchesEnded:(NSSet *)touches withEvent:(UIEvent *)event{
NSLog(#"ENDED");
[super touchesEnded:touches withEvent:event];
}
And in my UITableView I have simply:
- (void)touchesBegan:(NSSet *)touches withEvent:(UIEvent *)event{
NSLog(#"BEGTB");
[super touchesBegan:touches withEvent:event];
}
- (void)touchesMoved:(NSSet *)touches withEvent:(UIEvent *)event{
NSLog(#"MOVTB");
[super touchesMoved:touches withEvent:event];
}
- (void)touchesEnded:(NSSet *)touches withEvent:(UIEvent *)event{
NSLog(#"ENDTB");
[super touchesEnded:touches withEvent:event];
}
I am surely missing something but I do not know what

Answer 1

I would highly recommend looking into UITapGestureRecognizer instead of handling the touchesX events yourself.

Answer 2

I found a workaround for this, override the methods for touch gestures in my custom UITableView in order to make it scroll programMatically as I drag upon it an object.
Here is the 'solution'.
I still believe there is another simpler way to do this but I did not find it, so posting this and marking it as an 'answer' might help someone else.