Button calc stopped working - ios

Question

I have a simple program that does a calculation on a button press. The result is placed into a label using the following code:
//converts the float to 2 descimal places then converts it to a string
NSString *stringRectResult=[[NSString alloc]
initWithFormat:#"%1.2f",floatCalcResult];
//displays the string result in the label
resultLabel.text=stringRectResult;
It works perfectly, however, I added in code to hide the decimal keyboard when the user touches off the keyboard. That works, but when I added this code the button to update the label no longer worked. Can anyone help? The code to hide the keyboard is below. The app works when I comment it out but does not when it is active
In viewDidLoad:
UITapGestureRecognizer *tapRecognizer = [[UITapGestureRecognizer alloc]
initWithTarget:self action:#selector(tap:)];
[self.view addGestureRecognizer:tapRecognizer];
Tap selector...
-(void)tap:(UIGestureRecognizer *)gr
{
[self.view endEditing:YES];
}
Thanks for any and all help.

Answer 1

The problem is that by intercepting all of the user's taps (in order to hide the keyboard), you're preventing any other user interface elements from being tapped. I would urge you to rethink your design; it's not usually necessary to have an explicit facility to hide the keyboard.
If you do want to keep this design, you can implement the gestureRecognizer:shouldRecognizeSimultaneouslyWithGestureRecognizer: method in your class:
- (void) viewDidLoad
{
// ...
UITapGestureRecognizer *tapRecognizer = [[UITapGestureRecognizer alloc]
initWithTarget:self action:#selector(tap:)];
tapRecognizer.delegate = self;
[self.view addGestureRecognizer:tapRecognizer];
}
- (BOOL)gestureRecognizer:(UIGestureRecognizer *)gestureRecognizer
shouldRecognizeSimultaneouslyWithGestureRecognizer:(UIGestureRecognizer *)otherGestureRecognizer
{
return YES;
}
Two things to keep in mind:
You need to mark your view controller as conforming to the UIGestureRecognizerDelegate protocol.
If you later add a second gesture recognizer to the view, you'll need to add a check inside the second method to treat the second recognizer differently.