UITapGestureRecognizer doesn't work added to an UIView?

Question

I'm triyng to make a gesture recognizer for a simple UIView:

UIView *theView = [[UIView alloc] initWithFrame:rect];
[theView setUserInteractionEnabled:YES];

UITapGestureRecognizer *tap = [[[UITapGestureRecognizer alloc] initWithTarget:self 
                                                                       action:@selector(handleTap)] autorelease];
[theView addGestureRecognizer:tap];

If I debug the property gestureRecognizers of the view it shows the gesture recognizer object. But when I tap inside the view it doesn't work.

The same code using an UIImageView works perfect, any ideas why doesn't work in UIView?

UPDATED:

An example class.

@implementation ExampleClass

- (UIView *)getViewInRect:(CGRect)rect
{
    UIView *theView = [[UIView alloc] initWithRect:rect];
    [theView setUserInteractionEnabled:YES];

    UITapGestureRecognizer *tap = [[[UITapGestureRecognizer alloc] 
                                    initWithTarget:self 
                                    action:@selector(handleTap)] 
                                   autorelease];
    [aText addGestureRecognizer:tap];

    return theView;
}

- (UIImageView *)getImageViewInRect:(CGRect)rect
{
    UIImageView *theView = [[UIImageView alloc] initWithRect:rect];
    [theView setUserInteractionEnabled:YES];

    UITapGestureRecognizer *tap = [[[UITapGestureRecognizer alloc] 
                                        initWithTarget:self 
                                                action:@selector(handleTap)] 
                                   autorelease];
    [theView addGestureRecognizer:tap];

    return [theView autorelease];    
}

- (void)handleTap
{
    NSLog(@"Tap Handled!!", nil);
}

@end

UPDATED 2:

Adding UITapGestureRecognizer to all subviews of theView don't fix the problem...

FIX IT!!!

OK!! The problem was the CGRect for theView, it had the width set to 0.0!!!

what is your handleTap function looking like? Are you using a gestureRecognizer in the Superview of theView, that could catch the gesture? — Seega
handleTap is a method of the same class where the above code live. From this scoop I can call it without problems with [self handleTap]. — Víctor B.
Are you saying that if you replaced UIView with UIImageview in the code snippet above it works? — freespace
@freespace See the updated, is a C&P code from project (I can't show more). This appears a joke!! :-S — Víctor B.

Robert Mao Robert Mao · Accepted Answer · 2011-11-22T06:06:56

Did you try this?

[view setUserInteractionEnabled:YES];

UITapGestureRecognizer doesn't work added to an UIView?

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