Question

I have a static map image with a bunch of circles and squares on it that depict cities. I have loaded the image into an imageView that is sub-classed under a scrollView so that I can capture user touches and zoom/scroll across the map. My challenge is that I want to pop-up a label whenever a user touches one of these circles/squares for a city to tell them which city it is and possibly load a detail view for the city. I figured I could pre-load all the relative CGPoints for the cities based on the imageView map into a dictionary so I can reference them during a “touchesBegan” event, but I’m quickly getting in over my head and possibly going about this the wrong way.

So far everything is working and I can capture the CGPoint x and y coordinates of touches. The biggest issue I have is determining the proximity of the user touches to a discrete point I may have in the dictionary. In other words if the dictionary has “Boston = NSPoint: {235, 118};” how can I tell when a user is close to that point without making them repeat the touch until it is exact? Is there an easy way to determine if a user touch is “close” to a pre-existing point? Am I going about this the right way?

Any advice or slaps in the back of the head are welcome.

Thanks, Mike

Answer 1

You could use UIButtons to represent the cities. Then you’ll get the standard touch, highlight, etc, behaviors with less effort. Adding the buttons as subviews on your map should cause them to scale and scroll along with the map.