Question

I have a UIView custom class and the object created by this class has a long gesture recognizer, added as this

UILongPressGestureRecognizer *tapAndHold =
        [[UILongPressGestureRecognizer alloc] initWithTarget:self 
                                                  action:@selector(doStuff:)];
    [tapAndHold setDelegate:self];
    [tapAndHold setCancelsTouchesInView:NO];
    [tapAndHold setDelaysTouchesEnded:NO];
    [self addGestureRecognizer:tapAndHold];
    [tapAndHold release];

the problem is that for each long tap on the object the doStuff method runs two times in sequence.

am I missing something? ThANKS

Answer 1

The gesture recognizer propably fires more than once because there is more than one relevant event about which your delegate needs to be informed. For example, it could fire once it suspects a long tap is in progress, and a second time when an actual long tap ended.

The gesture recognizer will send a reference to itself which you can use to query it about the nature of the event that led to the selector being called. Basically you’d check your gesture recognizers state property and decide upon its value whether your methods code should be executed or not.

update: your doStuff could look like this:

-(void)doStuff: (UIGestureRecognizer *)gestureRecognizer {

   if ([gestureRecognizer state] == UIGestureRecognizerStateEnded) {
      //do the actual stuff
   }
}