How to detect a tap gesture in subviews

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Quick question: how do i detect if a tap gesture recognizer is within a subview of the view it is added to? Eg. if i click on an object such as a square that has been added as a subview to a background which a tap gesture recognizer has been added to, how do I detect that it has been tapped?

Please give clear clarification what you like to do? want to recognize the click on subview? — The iOSDev

Brandon A Brandon A · Accepted Answer · 2012-05-05T05:41:21

You can grab the point of the tap off the gesture recognizer when your handler method is called respective to any view you wish using -locationInView:. Then, use the following method on UIView: - (UIView *)hitTest:(CGPoint)point withEvent:(UIEvent *)event to get a reference to the actual sub view that was tapped remembering that the point you pass in is in the same coordinate space as the view.

Some code to get you started:

CGPoint point = [tapGestureRecognizer locationInView:parentView];
UIView *tappedView = [parentView hitTest:point withEvent:nil];

For hit testing to work the view needs to have the userInteractionEnabled property set to YES. Many views, such as UILabels have this set to NO by default. So prior to the above:

self.subviewOfInterest.userInteractionEnabled = YES;

How to detect a tap gesture in subviews

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