Thanks for reading.
My program adds UIImageViews upon tapping inside a UICollectionViewCell. Once the image is added, there is a separate, static UIButton set to delete any image(s) which intersect the button. The deleting code works fine, but the problem is that the button is not clickable under the programatically-added UIImageView. (If I click on a portion of the button which is not covered by the UIImageView, the button's function is called and the image(s) are properly deleted.)
Edit: I move the added image views around the screen using a UIGestureRecognizer and the handlepan function.
I have tried view.bringSubviewToFront(UIButton). After doing this, the button worked fine, but now the button was over the UIImageView, so I couldn't move the image outside of the button.
Edit 2: I found a workaround which bypasses the button functionality all together and simply deletes the image if its view intersects the button view at the end of the pan gesture.
//I added this code to the end of the handlepan function (and made a function calleddeleteimage which performs the actions of delete image):
if recognizer.state == UIGestureRecognizerState.Ended {
calleddeleteimage()
}
//Here is my original code for the UIPanGestureRecognizer and for the UIButton:
func handlepan(recognizer: UIPanGestureRecognizer) {
let movingview = recognizer.view!
let translation = recognizer.translationInView(recognizer.view)
view.bringSubviewToFront(movingview)
movingview.center = CGPoint(x: movingview.center.x + translation.x, y: movingview.center.y + translation.y)
recognizer.setTranslation(CGPointZero, inView: recognizer.view)
view.bringSubviewToFront(hungryman)
}
#IBOutlet weak var hungryman: UIButton!
#IBAction func deleteimage(sender: AnyObject) {
var count = 0
indexestodelete = []
for i in unlockeddisplaying {
if i.frame.intersects(hungryman.frame) {
i.removeFromSuperview()
indexestodelete.append(count)
}
count = count + 1
}
count = 0
for i in indexestodelete {
unlockeddisplaying.removeAtIndex(i - count)
unlockeddisplayingtypes.removeAtIndex(i - count)
count = count + 1
}
}
Thanks!
TL;DR: How to make UIButton always clickable, even when hidden under UIImageView?
On your image view, set userInteractionEnabled to false and touches will pass through it.
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In my app, I am displaying a popover that shows a custom UIView allowing the user to select a color using various sliders. I also want to implement an 'eyedropper' tool that the user can tap and hold then drag around to choose a color from anything visible in the app. Inside my custom UIView I added a UIPanGestureRecognizer to my button that points to the handlePan method:
var eyedropperStartLocation = CGPoint.zero
#objc func handlePan(recognizer: UIPanGestureRecognizer) {
// self is a custom UIView that contains my color selection
// sliders and is placed inside a UITableView that's in
// the popover.
let translation = recognizer.translation(in: self)
if let view = recognizer.view {
switch recognizer.state {
case .began:
eyedropperStartLocation = view.center
case .ended, .failed, .cancelled:
view.center = eyedropperStartLocation
return
default: break
}
view.center = CGPoint(x: view.center.x + translation.x,
y: view.center.y + translation.y)
recognizer.setTranslation(CGPoint.zero, in: self)
}
}
I can drag the button around and it changes location, however I have two issues:
The eyedropper button isn't always in front of other items, even inside the popover or the custom UIView inside the popover
The eyedropper button disappears when outside the bounds of the popover
How can I get the button to be visible all the time, including outside the popover? I'll want to detect where the user lets go of it within the app so I can determine what color it was on.
I figured out how to do this so I'll answer my own question. Instead of moving around the view/button that's inside the popup, I create a new UIImageView and add it to the application's Window, letting it span the whole application. The original button stays where it is - you could easily change the state on it to make it look different, or hide it if you wanted to.
You could also use Interface Builder to tie to #IBActions, but I just did everything in code. The clickButton method kicks things off but calculating location in the window and putting it on the screen. The handlePan method does the translation and lets you move it around.
All code below is swift 4 and works in XCode 9.4.1 (assuming I didn't introduce any typos):
// Call this from all your init methods so it will always happen
func commonInit() {
let panner = UIPanGestureRecognizer(target: self, action: #selector(handlePan(recognizer:)))
theButton.addGestureRecognizer(panner)
theButton.addTarget(self, action: #selector(clickButton), for: .touchDown)
eyedropperButton.addTarget(self, action: #selector(unclickButton), for: .touchUpInside)
eyedropperButton.addTarget(self, action: #selector(unclickButton), for: .touchUpOutside)
}
var startLocation = CGPoint.zero
lazy var floatingView: UIImageView = {
let view = UIImageView(image: UIImage(named: "imagename"))
view.backgroundColor = UIColor.blue
return view
}()
// When the user clicks button - we create the image and put it on the screen
// this makes the action seem faster vs waiting for the panning action to kick in
#objc func clickButton() {
guard let app = UIApplication.shared.delegate as? AppDelegate, let window = app.window else { return }
// We ask the button what it's bounds are within it's own coordinate system and convert that to the
// Window's coordinate system and set the frame on the floating view. This makes the new view overlap the
// button exactly.
floatingView.frame = theButton.convert(theButton.bounds, to: nil)
window.addSubview(floatingView)
// Save the location so we can translate it as part of the pan actions
startLocation = floatingView.center
}
// This is here to handle the case where the user didn't move enough to kick in the panGestureRecognizer and cancel the action
#objc func unclickButton() {
floatingView.removeFromSuperview()
}
#objc func handlePan(recognizer: UIPanGestureRecognizer) {
let translation = recognizer.translation(in: self)
switch recognizer.state {
case .ended, .failed, .cancelled:
doSomething()
floatingView.removeFromSuperview()
return
default: break
}
// This section is called for any pan state except .ended, .failed and .cancelled
floatingView.center = CGPoint(x: floatingView.center.x + translation.x,
y: floatingView.center.y + translation.y)
recognizer.setTranslation(CGPoint.zero, in: self)
}
I'm not sure whether this has been asked or not, but I failed to find a solution. I'm implementing panning gesture on a button, but the idea is: the button is fixed to a position, and when the user drags it, a copy of the button is created and moving with the gesture; the original one stays at its initial place (so there'll be 2 buttons in the view). When the panning ends, the new button is used for some processing, and after that it should disappear (the original one stays as it is; so this whole process can repeat). Currently what I have is as below:
private func addPanGesture() {
for btn in self.selectors { //selectors is a list of buttons which needs this gesture
let pan = UIPanGestureRecognizer(target: self, action:#selector(self.panDetected(_:)))
pan.minimumNumberOfTouches = 1
pan.maximumNumberOfTouches = 1
btn.addGesturerecognizer(pan)
}
}
#objc private func panDetected(_ panGesture: UIPanGestureRecognizer) {
var translation = panGesture.translation(in: view)
panGesture.setTranslation(CGPoint(x: 0, y: 0), in: view)
var newButton = UIButton()
if let initButton = panGesture.view as? UIButton {
print ("Button recognized!") // this msg is printed out
newButton.center = CGPoint(x: initButton.center.x + translation.x, y: initButton.center.y + translation.y)
newButton.setImage(UIImage(named: "somename"), for: .normal)
}
if panGesture.state == UIGestureRecognizerState.began {
self.view.addSubview(newButton)
}
if panGesture.state == UIGestureRecognizerState.ended {
//some other processing
}
if panGesture.state == UIGestureRecognizerState.changed {
self.view.addSubview(newButton)
}
// printed-out msgs show began, ended, changed states have all been reached
}
But the new button doesn't show up in my view. May I know how to solve this?
You need to create and add the new button as a subview only on .began and remove it on .ended.
Therefore you need to keep a reference to the new button.
You are setting the new button's center but not it's size. You might set its .frame.
You do not need to set a translation to the pan gesture. When you get var translation = panGesture.translation(in: view) you get everything you need.
I have wrote the below code for only one button, but if you are going to allow simultaneous dragging of buttons, you would need to keep a list of moving buttons instead of var movingButton: UIButton?
private func addPanGesture() {
let pan = UIPanGestureRecognizer(target: self, action:#selector(self.panDetected(_:)))
pan.minimumNumberOfTouches = 1
pan.maximumNumberOfTouches = 1
btn.addGestureRecognizer(pan)
}
#objc private func panDetected(_ panGesture: UIPanGestureRecognizer) {
let translation = panGesture.translation(in: view)
let initButton = panGesture.view as! UIButton
if panGesture.state == UIGestureRecognizerState.began {
// this is just copying initial button
// this might be overkill
// just make sure you set the frame, title and image of the new button correctly
let initButtonData = NSKeyedArchiver.archivedData(withRootObject: initButton)
let newButton = NSKeyedUnarchiver.unarchiveObject(with: initButtonData) as! UIButton
// we store new button's reference since we will just move it while it is added to view
movingButton = newButton
self.view.addSubview(movingButton!)
}
if panGesture.state == UIGestureRecognizerState.ended {
//some other processing
// when we are done just we just remove it from superview
movingButton!.removeFromSuperview()
}
if panGesture.state == UIGestureRecognizerState.changed {
// at any change, all we need to do is update movingButton's frame
var buttonFrame = initButton.frame;
buttonFrame.origin = CGPoint(x: buttonFrame.origin.x + translation.x, y: buttonFrame.origin.y + translation.y)
movingButton!.frame = buttonFrame
}
}
Hard to say without debugging it, but a few things I see:
You create a new button every time through panDetected, and add it to the view each time. You should only create an add the button in the .began state.
You should use init(frame:) to create your button, and initialize it to the size of the image.
It looks like you're attaching the pan gestures to the buttons. Then you get the pan coordinates in the button's coordinate system, which doesn't make sense. You should be converting the pan gesture to the button's superview's coordinate system, and should not be calling setTranslation except when the pan gesture's state is .began.
You should be setting the button's coordinates to the new location of the pan gesture each time you get a 1st.changed` message.
I have 5 buttons; each allows touchUpInside-action and touchDragOutside-action...as well as doubleTap-action and longPress-action via tapGestureRecognizers.
I would also like to allow user to start a swipe from any UIButton and Any addition UIButton that the swipe touches, these buttons (including first touch) perform their #IBAction func Swipe.
so a continuously swipe like so
would perform #IBAction func swipe for UIButtons 1,2,3,4 and 5.
You can try something like this:
// Create an array to hold the buttons you've swiped over
var buttonArray:NSMutableArray!
override func viewDidLoad() {
super.viewDidLoad()
// Make your view's UIPanGestureRecognizer call panGestureMethod:
// (don't use a UISwipeGestureRecognizer since it's a discrete gesture)
panGesture.addTarget(self, action: "panGestureMethod:")
}
func panGestureMethod(gesture:UIPanGestureRecognizer) {
// Initialize and empty array to hold the buttons at the
// start of the gesture
if gesture.state == UIGestureRecognizerState.Began {
buttonArray = NSMutableArray()
}
// Get the gesture's point location within its view
// (This answer assumes the gesture and the buttons are
// within the same view, ex. the gesture is attached to
// the view controller's superview and the buttons are within
// that same superview.)
let pointInView = gesture.locationInView(gesture.view)
// For each button, if the gesture is within the button and
// the button hasn't yet been added to the array, add it to the
// array. (This example uses 4 buttons instead of 9 for simplicity's
// sake
if !buttonArray.containsObject(button1) && CGRectContainsPoint(button1.frame, pointInView){
buttonArray.addObject(button1)
}
else if !buttonArray.containsObject(button2) && CGRectContainsPoint(button2.frame, pointInView){
buttonArray.addObject(button2)
}
else if !buttonArray.containsObject(button3) && CGRectContainsPoint(button3.frame, pointInView){
buttonArray.addObject(button3)
}
else if !buttonArray.containsObject(button4) && CGRectContainsPoint(button4.frame, pointInView){
buttonArray.addObject(button4)
}
// Once the gesture ends, trigger the buttons within the
// array using whatever control event would otherwise trigger
// the button's method.
if gesture.state == UIGestureRecognizerState.Ended && buttonArray.count > 0 {
for button in buttonArray {
(button as UIButton).sendActionsForControlEvents(UIControlEvents.TouchUpInside)
}
}
}
(Edit: Here are a few answers I've written in the past explaining what I meant by UISwipeGestureRecognizer being a discrete gesture: stackoverflow.com/a/27072281/2274694, stackoverflow.com/a/25253902/2274694)
I’m using UIPanGestureRecognizer to move UIImageView. Now i’m need to check if user moved my object within other vectored-PDF UIImageView.
For example we have red bar that we are moving and we need to move red bar inside blue bar (blue bar is vector PDF). How can we check that?
Example image: http://i.imgur.com/PKXKHBi.png
Example code:
#IBAction func moveRedBox(recognizer: UIPanGestureRecognizer) {
let translation = recognizer.translationInView(self.view)
recognizer.view!.center = CGPoint(x:recognizer.view!.center.x + translation.x,
y:recognizer.view!.center.y + translation.y)
recognizer.setTranslation(CGPointZero, inView: self.view)
if recognizer.state == UIGestureRecognizerState.Ended {
// Here we will check that redBox inside blueBox
}
}
To check if two view's overlap you can use the CGRectIntersectsRect function.
Update: Just found out that there is also an intersects method on CGRect in Swift
let doRectsIntersect = rect1.intersects(rect2)
Check this out. This helped me:
if view1.frame.contains(view2.center) {
// do your thing
}
Full example:
#IBAction func moveRedBox(recognizer: UIPanGestureRecognizer) {
...
switch recognizer.state {
case .Ended:
if blueBox.frame.contains(recognizer.view!.center) {
print("Yep")
}
}
}
Check position of UIImageView
image.frame.origin.x >= view.frame.origin.x
image.frame.origin.y >= view.frame.origin.y
put this code when the movement done
I’m trying to create an application which duplicates the ability of Apple’s Photos app (iPhone) to zoom, pan and scroll through photographic images. (I also want to use the same controls when viewing pdfs and other documents.) I got the tap gesture to show/hide the navigation bar and the swipe gesture to scroll through the images from left to right & vice versa. Then I got the pinch gesture to zoom in and out, but when I added the pan gesture to move around within a zoomed image, the swipe gesture quit working.
I found potential solutions elsewhere on StackOverflow including the use of shouldRecognizeSimultaneouslyWithGestureRecognizer, but so far I have not been able to resolve the conflict. Any suggestions?
Here's the code:
func gestureRecognizer(UIPanGestureRecognizer: UIGestureRecognizer, shouldRecognizeSimultaneouslyWithGestureRecognizer UISwipeGestureRecognizer: UIGestureRecognizer) -> Bool {
return true
}
#IBAction func handlePinch(sender: UIPinchGestureRecognizer) {
sender.view!.transform = CGAffineTransformScale(sender.view!.transform, sender.scale, sender.scale)
sender.scale = 1
}
#IBAction func handlePan(sender: UIPanGestureRecognizer) {
self.view.bringSubviewToFront(sender.view!)
var translation = sender.translationInView(self.view)
sender.view!.center = CGPointMake(sender.view!.center.x + translation.x, sender.view!.center.y + translation.y)
sender.setTranslation(CGPointZero, inView: self.view)
}
#IBAction func handleSwipeRight(sender: UISwipeGestureRecognizer) {
if (self.index == 0) {
self.index = ((photos.count) - 1);
}
else
{
self.index--;
}
// requireGestureRecognizerToFail(panGesture)
setImage()
}
You do not want shouldRecognizeSimultaneouslyWithGestureRecognizer: (which allows two gestures to happen simultaneously). That's useful if you want to, for example, simultaneously pinch and pan. But the simultaneous gestures will not help in this scenario where you are panning and swiping at the same time. (If anything, recognizing those simultaneously probably confuses the situation.)
Instead, you might want to establish precedence of swipe and pan gestures (e.g. only pan if swipe fails) with requireGestureRecognizerToFail:.
Or better, retire the swipe gesture entirely and use solely the pan gesture, which, if you're zoomed out will be an interactive gesture to navigate from one image to the next, and if zoomed in, pans the image. Interactive pan gestures generally a more satisfying UX, anyway; e.g., if swiping from one photo to the next, be able to stop mid pan gesture and go back. If you look at the Photos.app, it's actually using a pan gesture to swipe from one image to another, not a swipe gesture.
I discovered a tutorial at http://www.raywenderlich.com/76436/use-uiscrollview-scroll-zoom-content-swift that does a great job of introducing UIScrollView as a way of combining zooming, panning and paging in Swift. I recommend it for anyone trying to learn how to make these gestures work well together.
In similar case I've used another approach: extended pan gesture to support swipe:
// in handlePan()
switch recognizer.state {
struct Holder {
static var lastTranslate : CGFloat = 0
static var prevTranslate : CGFloat = 0
static var lastTime : TimeInterval = 0
static var prevTime : TimeInterval = 0
}
case .began:
Holder.lastTime = Date.timeIntervalSinceReferenceDate
Holder.lastTranslate = translation.y
Holder.prevTime = Holder.lastTime
Holder.prevTranslate = Holder.lastTranslate
//perform appropriate pan action
case .changed:
Holder.prevTime = Holder.lastTime
Holder.prevTranslate = Holder.lastTranslate
Holder.lastTime = Date.timeIntervalSinceReferenceDate
Holder.lastTranslate = translation.y
//perform appropriate pan action
case .ended ,.cancelled:
let seconds = CGFloat(Date.timeIntervalSinceReferenceDate) - CGFloat(Holder.prevTime)
var swipeVelocity : CGFloat = 0
if seconds > 0 {
swipeVelocity = (translation.y - Holder.prevTranslate)/seconds
}
var shouldSwipe : Bool = false
if Swift.abs(swipeVelocity) > velocityThreshold {
shouldSwipe = swipeVelocity < 0
}
if shouldSwipe {
// perform swipe action
} else {
// perform appropriate pan action
}
default:
print("Unsupported")
}
All you need to do is to find appropriate velocityTreshold for your swipe gesture