Adding custom gesture to iCarousel items - ios

Question

Hi I've been working with Xcode for a while and used UIGestureRecognizers many times now. At this moment i'm developing an iPad app that needs a carousel in it, so what's better then using iCarousel as i've already encountered it and I think it's great.
I'm having some issues adding to the carousel items a UISwipeGestureRecognizer (I would use it to delete the "swiped" item). Would look easy but it just looks like the UIGestureRecognizer is not there, but if print view.recognizer I can see it is actually there. What am I missing?
And sorry for any language mistakes!
The code
- (UIView *)carousel:(iCarousel *)carousel viewForItemAtIndex:(NSUInteger)index reusingView:(UIView *)view
{
UILabel *nameLabel = nil;
UILabel *notesLabel = nil;
UIImageView *icon1 = nil;
UIImageView *icon2 = nil;
Notebook *referenceNotebook = [_notebookArray objectAtIndex:index];
//create new view if no view is available for recycling
if (view == nil)
{
view = [[UIImageView alloc] initWithFrame:CGRectMake(0, 0, 250.0f, 373.0f)];
((UIImageView *)view).image = [UIImage imageNamed:#"notebookBase"];
view.contentMode = UIViewContentModeCenter;
CGPoint startingPoint = view.frame.origin;
CGSize startingSize = view.frame.size;
nameLabel = [[UILabel alloc] initWithFrame:CGRectMake(startingPoint.x, startingPoint.y + 60, startingSize.width, 100)];
nameLabel.backgroundColor = [UIColor clearColor];
nameLabel.textAlignment = NSTextAlignmentCenter;
nameLabel.font = [FontController useFontKlinic_Light:50];
nameLabel.tag = 1;
[view addSubview:nameLabel];
notesLabel = [[UILabel alloc]initWithFrame:CGRectMake(startingPoint.x, startingPoint.y + 95, startingSize.width, 100)];
notesLabel.backgroundColor = [UIColor clearColor];
notesLabel.textAlignment = NSTextAlignmentCenter;
notesLabel.font = [FontController useFontKlinic_Light:30];
[view addSubview:notesLabel];
icon1 = [[UIImageView alloc] initWithFrame:CGRectMake(startingPoint.x + 105, startingPoint.y + 18, 40, 40)];
icon1.image = [UIImage imageNamed:#"notebookIcon1"];
[view addSubview:icon1];
icon2 = [[UIImageView alloc] initWithFrame:CGRectMake(startingPoint.x + 105, startingPoint.y + 320, 40, 40)];
icon2.image = [UIImage imageNamed:#"notebookIcon1"];
[view addSubview:icon2];
//UIView *swipeView = [[UIView alloc] initWithFrame:CGRectMake(startingPoint.x, startingPoint.y, startingSize.width, startingSize.height)];
//swipeView.backgroundColor = [UIColor clearColor];
//UISwipeGestureRecognizer *swipeRecognizer = [[UISwipeGestureRecognizer alloc] initWithTarget:self action:#selector(carouselSwipewipeHandler:)];
//[swipeRecognizer setDirection:(UISwipeGestureRecognizerDirectionUp)];
// [swipeView addGestureRecognizer:swipeRecognizer];
//[view addSubview:swipeView];
}
else
{
//get a reference to the label in the recycled view
nameLabel = (UILabel *)[view viewWithTag:1];
}
nameLabel.text = referenceNotebook.name;
notesLabel.text = #"n note";
UISwipeGestureRecognizer *swipeRecognizer = [[UISwipeGestureRecognizer alloc] initWithTarget:self action:#selector(carouselSwipewipeHandler:)];
[swipeRecognizer setDirection:(UISwipeGestureRecognizerDirectionUp)];
[view addGestureRecognizer:swipeRecognizer];
view.tag = index;
NSLog(#"gesture recogs: %#", view.gestureRecognizers);
return view;
}
Anyone with an idea of what I am doing wrong?
Here's also a link to the iCarousel documentation:
https://github.com/nicklockwood/iCarousel#detecting-taps-on-item-views Thanks in advance!

Answer 1

Only one gesture can be active at any one time by default, and the carousel uses a gesture internally for scrolling. So, if you want to use other gestures you need to add a delegate to your gesture and the the carousel gesture so that you can make them work simultaneously.