Question

Excuse the bad pun, I’m creating a custom tab bar in my iPhone app using UIButtons. Everything works beautifully except that when I tap and hold a button, it doesn’t select it until I release it. It’s really bugging me, because a standard UITabBarItem is selected on touch down and it just feels wrong.

I’ve set the IBAction to “Touch Down” and my code is pretty simple. Am I doing something wrong?

-(IBAction)tab1Pressed:(id)sender 
{
    if (self.tab1.selected == NO) {
        self.tab1.selected = YES;
        self.tab2.selected = NO;
    }
}

Answer 1

Got a solution! Added a UILongPressGestureRecognizer to each UIButton, instead of using IBActions. Worked like a charm!

In viewDidLoad:

tapAndHold = [[UILongPressGestureRecognizer alloc] initWithTarget:self action:@selector(handleTapAndHold)];
[tapAndHold setMinimumPressDuration:0.01];
[self.myTabBarButton addGestureRecognizer:tapAndHold];
[tapAndHold release];