UITapGestureRecognizer does not cancel tap on UITableView elements - ios

I have implemented UITableView where each cell contains some buttons
In order to detect if user taps on table I have added UITapGestureRecognizer.
I want the buttons in the cells to do nothing when user taps on them.
I have implemented this selector:
- (void) backgroundTouched:(UITapGestureRecognizer*)sender {
UIView *view = sender.view;
NSLog(#"backgroundTouched %#", view);
}
I see that when I tap anywhere on the table this selector gets called except if I tap on any of the buttons contained in the UITableViewCell.
How can I avoid that?
Here is the code which creates the UITapGestureRecognizer:
pragma mark UISearchControllerDelegate
- (void)didPresentSearchController:(UISearchController *)searchController
{
NSLog(#"didPresentSearchController");
self.cancelGesture = [UITapGestureRecognizer new];
[self.cancelGesture addTarget:self action:#selector(backgroundTouched:)];
self.cancelGesture.cancelsTouchesInView = YES;
[self.tableView addGestureRecognizer:self.cancelGesture];
}

If you don't want your buttons to do anything, disable the userInteractionEnabled of the button.
cell.addCashButton.userInteractionEnabled = NO;

My suggestion:
Table has own touch action facility use it's delegate method didSelectRowAtIndexPath
And if you are using UIButton in custom cell then instead of UITapGestureRecognizer you can add button action method in cellForRowAtIndexPath with button's tag like below
in cellForRowAtIndexPath method
cell.yourButton.tag = indexPath.row
[cell.yourButton addTarget:self action:#selector(myButtonActionMethod:) forControlEvents:UIControlEventTouchUpInside]
And declare button action method
-(void) myButtonActionMethod:(UIButton*)sender
{
NSLog(#"you clicked on button %#", sender.tag);
}

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iOS Disable Double Tap gesture recognizer in Swift

I am working on a app using TableView now i am facing an issue listed below.
Inside my TableView there is UITextView on it, that MUST be selectable, but not editable (because I need to use and proceed links).
My issue is:
when I tap on a link as everybody does, it doesn't work. I need to hold it a bit longer to make it work. I thought that it is because of "Selectable" property brings in a Double Tap Gesture recognizer, so my textView checks if there is a second tap, but I don't know how to find and remove only double tap recognizer.
What should I do?
Thank you.
Have you considered replacing the TextView with a UIWebView, and just do a loadHTMLString function?
This way when you tap on a link, it will open instantly? You can even have a UIWebView delegate and do what you want when the link is pressed(Custom UIWebView instead of auto opening in safari etc)
You've to handle tap event.. Through this code
tapGesture.numberOfTapsRequired = 1
OR
To do this, you will need to embed one in your UITableViewCell. But there's no need to create a custom cell. Here is the basic idea of what you will want to do:
- (UITableViewCell *)tableView:(UITableView *)tableView cellForRowAtIndexPath:(NSIndexPath *)indexPath {
static NSString *CellIdentifier = #"Cell";
UITableViewCell *cell = [tableView dequeueReusableCellWithIdentifier:CellIdentifier];
if (cell == nil) {
cell = [[[UITableViewCell alloc] initWithStyle:UITableViewCellStyleDefault reuseIdentifier:CellIdentifier] autorelease];
UITextView *comment = [[UITextView alloc] initWithFrame:CGRectMake(cell.frame.origin.x, cell.frame.origin.y, cell.frame.size.width, tableView.rowHeight)];
comment.editable = NO;
comment.delegate = self;
[cell.contentView addSubview:comment];
[comment release];
}
return cell;
}
You will, of course, need to set your rowHeight if you don't want the standard 44pt height that comes with the cell. And if you want actual cells, you'll need to add your own logic so that only the cell you want is a textView, but this is the basic idea. The rest is yours to customize to your fitting. Hope this helps
EDIT: to bypass the textView to get to your cell, there are two ways to go about this.
1) you can make a custom textView class and overwrite touchesBegan to send the message to super:
- (void)touchesBegan:(NSSet *)touches withEvent:(UIEvent *)event {
[super touchesBegan:touches withEvent:event];
}
this will send the touch events to its superview, which would be your tableView. Considering you didn't want to make custom UITableViewCells, I imagine you probably don't want to make a custom textView class either. Which leads me to option two.
2) when creating the textView, remove comment.editable = NO;. We need to keep it editable, but will fix that in a delegate method.
In your code, you will want to insert a textView delegate method and we'll do all our work from there:
EDIT: changing this code to use with a UITableViewController
- (BOOL)textViewShouldBeginEditing:(UITextView *)textView {
// this method is called every time you touch in the textView, provided it's editable;
NSIndexPath *indexPath = [self.tableView indexPathForCell:textView.superview.superview];
// i know that looks a bit obscure, but calling superview the first time finds the contentView of your cell;
// calling it the second time returns the cell it's held in, which we can retrieve an index path from;
// this is the edited part;
[self.tableView selectRowAtIndexPath:indexPath animated:NO scrollPosition:UITableViewScrollPositionNone];
// this programmatically selects the cell you've called behind the textView;
[self tableView:self.tableView didSelectRowAtIndexPath:indexPath];
// this selects the cell under the textView;
return NO; // specifies you don't want to edit the textView;
}
If that's not what you wanted, just let me know and we'll get you sorted out
Finding and Removing Double Tap Gesture recognizer
Objective C
- (void)addGestureRecognizer:(UIGestureRecognizer *)gestureRecognizer
{
if ([gestureRecognizer isKindOfClass:[UITapGestureRecognizer class]])
{
[(UITapGestureRecognizer *)gestureRecognizer setNumberOfTapsRequired:1];
gestureRecognizer.enabled = NO;
}
}
Swift
func addGestureRecognizer(gestureRecognizer: UIGestureRecognizer)
{
if gestureRecognizer.isKindOfClass(UITapGestureRecognizer)
{
(gestureRecognizer as! UITapGestureRecognizer).numberOfTapsRequired = 1
gestureRecognizer.enabled = false
}
}

Dismiss keyboard for UITextfield in UITableView cell

I have a UITableView to which i've assigned a UITextField to each cell. I want to be able to accept input from each text field and dismiss the keyboard when the user taps anywhere on the screen other than the keyboard. This is the code I have so far, but I find the keyboard only gets dismissed when im on the last cell in the table.
- (UITableViewCell *)tableView:(UITableView *)tableView cellForRowAtIndexPath:(NSIndexPath *)indexPath
{
UITableViewCell *cell = [self.gradesTableView dequeueReusableCellWithIdentifier:#"Cell" forIndexPath:indexPath];
self.tf = [[UITextField alloc] initWithFrame:CGRectMake(225, (cell.contentView.bounds.size.height-30)/2, 50, 30)];
[self.tf setDelegate: self];
self.tf.tag = indexPath.row;
self.tf.textAlignment = NSTextAlignmentCenter;
self.tf.placeholder = #"0";
self.tf.backgroundColor = [UIColor grayColor];
self.tf.borderStyle = UITextBorderStyleRoundedRect;
self.tf.keyboardType = UIKeyboardTypeDecimalPad;
[cell addSubview:self.tf];
cell.textLabel.text = [self.adderArrayLabels objectAtIndex:indexPath.section];
return cell;
}
- (void)textFieldDidBeginEditing:(UITextField *)textField{
self.tapGR = [[UITapGestureRecognizer alloc] initWithTarget:self action:#selector(tap)];
[self.view addGestureRecognizer:self.tapGR];
NSLog(#"Started editing");
}
Ive tried both endEditing: and resignFirstResponder but both only dismiss the keyboard when im on the textfield in the last cell.
- (void)tap {
[self.tf endEditing:YES];
//[self.tf resignFirstResponder];
NSLog(#"tap called");
self.tapGR.enabled = NO;
}
With the NSLog statements in the code I can confirm the method tap is called every time the appropriate tap gesture is recognized but still the keyboard stays. How do I fix this?
The problem is here:
self.tf
Your class has a text field property, and every time you create a new text field, you assign it to this property. Then, you only try to endEditing: or resignFirstResponder on this property, which will always be the text field on the cell most recently created.
You don't need this property at all and can just use a local text field variable when creating the cells.
Then change your tap method to this:
- (void)tap {
[self.view endEditing:YES];
NSLog(#"tap called");
self.tapGR.enabled = NO;
}
And truly, the method should probably be: - (void)tap:(id)sender;
Also, as I commented, the gesture recognizer should be added in viewDidLoad. We only need to add it once, not each and every time a text field begins editing. The only reason to add it every time a text field begins editing is if you're also removing it every time the text field ends editing... but as the method that the gesture calls simply gets rid of the keyboard, I see no reason to do that.

Prevent didSelectRowAtIndexPath being called for STTweetLabel

I'm using this custom component for hashtag detection in my app. I have added STTweetLabel's as subviews to my custom table view cells. However, clicking on any hashtag invokes the STTweetLabel handler block AND also calls the tableview's didSelectRowAtIndexPath delegate which results in a push to another controller. How do I disable this from happening? i.e. prevent the didSelectRowAtIndexPath behaviour on the STTweetLabels?
Code:
[hashtagLabel setDetectionBlock:^(STTweetHotWord hotWord, NSString *string, NSString *protocol, NSRange range) {
// call delegate to respond to hashtag selection
}];
Try to delete
[super touchesBegan:touches withEvent:event];
[super touchesMoved:touches withEvent:event];
[super touchesEnded:touches withEvent:event];
in STTweetLabel.m
I use TTTAttributedLabel now, you can also try it.
If your problem is cell highlight then use this.
cell.selectionStyle = UITableViewCellSelectionStyleNone;
Or use this for prevent invoke didSelectRowAtIndexPath.
tableView:willSelectRowAtIndexPath:
I hope it will help you
You can either prevent the cell from being selected at all in the interface builder or in code using the UITableViewCellSelectionStyleNone selection style.
or in your -(NSIndexPath *)tableView:(UITableView *)tableView willSelectRowAtIndexPath:(NSIndexPath *)indexPath method return nil for the indexPath of the cells you don't want to get selected
Actually didSelectRowAtIndexPath method always get called first and this solution may work if your label will not cover whole your cell.
If you are doing some task in didSelectRowAtIndexPath then do this steps
1> cell.selectionStyle = UITableViewCellSelectionStyleNone;
2> make custom cell put button back side of label .On button put uilabel then you can add action on that button and do some task when button tapped and as well you can detect label tap seperately
the dirty way:
put your STTweetLabel inside an UIButton without target and action

iphone - perform segue from custom TableCellView

I have a UITableView in which I am populating custom built UITableViewCells. These have a picture and a few labels.
Is there any way that when click on the picture that it performs a certain segue but when I click on each of the labels it performs different segues. I only want these segues performed when I click on the UIImageView or the UILabels.
I am currently playing with the following idea.
Add gesture recogniser to UIImageView and UILables when creating them in cellForRowAtIndexPath
The above touch gesture will trigger the segue
My code looks like this in the UITableView cellForRowAtIndexPath delegate where I create my UITableViewCells
cell.myImage.userInteractionEnabled = YES;
UITapGestureRecognizer *singleTap = [[UITapGestureRecognizer alloc] initWithTarget:self action:#selector(doSomething:)];
singleTap.numberOfTapsRequired = 1;
singleTap.delegate = self;
[cell.myImage addGestureRecognizer:singleTap];
This overrides the didSelectRowAtIndexPath delegate for the table view when I click on the UIImageView so I've tried triggering the segue from the doSomething: function but this function doesn't know the UITableView indexPath so cannot send the right information to the destination viewcontroller (it always sends 0).
I'm sure there must be an easy away to do this
Any ideas welcome. Thanks in advance.
You can get NSIndexPath of cell myImage belongs to by adding following to tap handler doSomething:
- (void)doSomething:(UITapGestureRecognizer *)sender {
if (sender.state == UIGestureRecognizerStateEnded) {
CGPoint touch = [sender locationInView:self.tableView];
NSIndexPath *indexPath = [self.tableView indexPathForRowAtPoint:touchPoint];
NSLog(#"indexPath: %#", indexPath);
//Select cell and trigger didSelectRowAtIndexPath:
[self.myTableView selectRowAtIndexPath:indexPath animated:YES scrollPosition:UITableViewScrollPositionNone];
[self tableView:self.myTableView didSelectRowAtIndexPath:indexPath];
}
}
UIGestureRecognizers have a view property you can access. Iterate over that view's superviews until you have the UITableViewCell and call:
[tableView indexPathForCell:cell];
that should give you the IndexPath.

Hiding a Button in a UITableViewCell

I currently have a table with 8 rows that each have a label on the right side and a button on the left. I was hoping that I could have all the buttons hidden until the user presses an "edit" button in the top right corner and then they would appear allowing the user to interact with each table cell. I don't know if this is possible, because they are in UITableViewCells or if there is an easier method to summoning a button for each cell
UPDATE
okay so I have placed in all the hidden properties and there seem to be no errors, but the app doesn't recognize any of it. The buttons remains unhidden despite the fact that they are set to be initially hidden. Here is my code
Here is my Table Cell code:
- (UITableViewCell *)tableView:(UITableView *)tableView cellForRowAtIndexPath: (NSIndexPath *)indexPath
{
static NSString *CellIdentifier = #"BlockCell";
UITableViewCell *cell = [tableView dequeueReusableCellWithIdentifier:CellIdentifier forIndexPath:indexPath];
cell.textLabel.text = #"Free Block";
UIButton*BlockButton = [UIButton buttonWithType:UIButtonTypeRoundedRect];
BlockButton.frame = CGRectMake(225.0f, 5.0f, 75.0f, 35.0f);
[BlockButton setTitle:#"Change" forState:UIControlStateNormal];
[BlockButton addTarget:self action:#selector(Switch:) forControlEvents:UIControlEventTouchUpInside];
Blockbutton.backgroundColor = [UIColor colorWithRed:102/255.f
green:0/255.f
blue:51/255.f
alpha:255/255.f];
Blockbutton.hidden = YES;
[cell addSubview:BlockButton];
return cell;
}
and here is my method code:
- (IBAction)Editmode:(UIButton *)sender
{
Blockbutton.hidden = !Blockbutton.hidden;
[self.tableView reloadData];
}
any thoughts or ideas as to what might be the issue?
You'll need to create a UITableViewCell subclass if you don't already have one. In that class, override setEditing:animated: and if the new value is YES, then enable/add/unhide the button.
- (void)setEditing:(BOOL)editing animated:(BOOL)animated {
[super setEditing:editing animated:animated];
if (editing) {
// add your button
someButton.hidden = NO;
} else {
// remove your button
someButton.hidden = YES;
}
}
It would be optional, but you are encouraged to animate the change if animated is YES.
Note: this assumes you have the edit button already hooked up the change the editing mode of the UITableView. If you don't, call setEditing:animated: on the UITableView in the button action. This will automatically call setEditing:animated: on each visible table cell.
The trick here is to keep in mind that a table's cells are determined by cellForRowAtIndexPath:. You can cause that method to be called all over again by sending the table reloadData:.
So, just keep a BOOL instance variable / property. Use the button to toggle that instance variable and to call reloadData:. If, at the time cellForRowAtIndexPath: is called, the instance variable is YES, set the button's hidden to YES; if NO, to NO.
take a BOOL variable which defines the whether to show delete button or not, use this BOOL var to for btnName.hidden = boolVar, initially make boolVar = NO, when user taps on edit toggle bool var and reload the tableview.
Another option is to test if you are in edit mode in the cellForRowAtIndexPath method.
- (UITableViewCell *)tableView:(UITableView *)tableView cellForRowAtIndexPath:(NSIndexPath *)indexPath {
UITableViewCell *cell = //(obtain your cell however you like)
UIButton *button = cell.button; //(get button from cell using a property, a tag, etc.)
BOOL isEditing = self.editing //(obtain the state however you like)
button.hidden = !isEditing;
return cell;
}
And whenever you enter editing mode, reload tableView data. This will make the table view ask for the cells again, but in this case the buttons will be set not to hide.
- (void)enterEditingMode {
self.editing = YES;
[self.tableView reloadData];
}

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