Translate uiview in direction of touch moved, iphone - ios

Question

I want to translate UIView in same direction as touch moves .
Please suggest.

Answer 1

Modify the touchesBegan and touchesMoved methods to be like the following
float oldX, oldY;
BOOL dragging;
- (void)touchesBegan:(NSSet *)touches withEvent:(UIEvent *)event {
UITouch *touch = [[event allTouches] anyObject];
CGPoint touchLocation = [touch locationInView:self.view];
if (CGRectContainsPoint(window.frame, touchLocation)) {
dragging = YES;
oldX = touchLocation.x;
oldY = touchLocation.y;
}
}
- (void)touchesMoved:(NSSet *)touches withEvent:(UIEvent *)event {
UITouch *touch = [[event allTouches] anyObject];
CGPoint touchLocation = [touch locationInView:self.view];
if (dragging) {
CGRect frame = window.frame;
frame.origin.x = window.frame.origin.x + touchLocation.x - oldX;
frame.origin.y = window.frame.origin.y + touchLocation.y - oldY;
window.frame = frame;
}
oldX = touchLocation.x;
oldY = touchLocation.y;
}
- (void)touchesEnded:(NSSet *)touches withEvent:(UIEvent *)event {
dragging = NO;
}
Hope it help

Answer 2

Try to do like the code below. I'm not sure if it is a best solution for all direction translation.
- (void)touchesBegan:(NSSet *)touches withEvent:(UIEvent *)event
{
if ([touches count] != 1) return;
_swipeStartInX = [[touches anyObject] locationInView:self].x;
_swipeStartInY = [[touches anyObject] locationInView:self].y;
_swiping = YES;
}
- (void)touchesMoved:(NSSet *)touches withEvent:(UIEvent *)event
{
if (!_swiping || [touches count] != 1) return;
CGFloat swipeDistanceInX = [[touches anyObject] locationInView:self].x - _swipeStartInX;
CGFloat swipeDistanceInY = [[touches anyObject] locationInView:self].y - _swipeStartInY;
CGSize contentSize = self.frame.size;
[_yourView setFrame:CGRectMake(swipeDistanceInX - contentSize.width, swipeDistanceInY - contentSize.width, contentSize.width, contentSize.height)];
}
-(void)touchesEnded:(NSSet *)touches withEvent:(UIEvent *)event
{
if (!_swiping) return;
// You can set the last position when touches end.
// E.g. You can set positions like slide page does, just the the origin of _yourView.
}
If you just want translate in vertical and horizontal direction, you can use UIScrolView instead. :)

Answer 3

You can just add this method to your subclassed UIView class.
- (void)touchesMoved:(NSSet *)touches withEvent:(UIEvent *)event
{
[super touchesMoved:touches withEvent:event];
UITouch *touch = [touches anyObject];
CGPoint currentLocation = [touch locationInView:self];
CGPoint previousLocation= [touch previousLocationInView:self];
CGFloat deltaX = currentLocation.x - previousLocation.x;
CGFloat deltaY = currentLocation.y - previousLocation.y;
self.frame = CGRectMake(self.frame.origin.x + deltaX, self.frame.origin.y + deltaY, self.frame.size.width, self.frame.size.height);
}