Superview isn't getting touch events - ios

Question

I have a simple iPad app with the following layers of views:
BaseView (covers the entire available area).
SquareView (covers 100x100px area).
The SquareView is added as subview to BaseView.
I also have a BaseViewController.m file. In this file I added the touchesBegan and touchesEnded functions to handle touch events. The problem is, when I click on the SquareView the touches functions get called, but when I click anywhere else they don't get called.
I have userInteractionEnabled = YES for the SquareView. I need this variable to be set in order to receive touches.
Clicking on the area outside the SquareView does not trigger the touches functions. I am puzzled as to why. Setting the userInteractionEnabled variable in the BaseView has no impact. What could be happening here? Is there some rule that I am missing? I am pretty sure I had it working at one point.
When the user clicks on the subview (SquareView) I need to launch a menu (let's say MenuView class). The idea is, when the user clicks on the area outside of the menu (or SquareView) I need to remove the pop-up MenuView by calling [menuView removeFromSuperview]. Is there a better way to handle this?

Answer 1

You could try to use this code in your controller. It should work for you.
- (void)viewDidLoad
{
[super viewDidLoad];
UIView *subview = [[UIView alloc] initWithFrame:CGRectMake(100, 100, 100, 100)];
subview.backgroundColor = [UIColor lightGrayColor];
[subview addGestureRecognizer:[[UITapGestureRecognizer alloc] initWithTarget:self
action:#selector(subviewTouched)]];
[self.view addSubview:subview];
[self.view addGestureRecognizer:[[UITapGestureRecognizer alloc] initWithTarget:self
action:#selector(viewTouched)]];
}
- (void)viewTouched
{
NSLog(#"viewTouched");
}
- (void)subviewTouched
{
NSLog(#"subviewTouched");
}