Question

I have a UIViewController with a LongPressGesturerecognizer attached.
There is also a UITextField in the view controllers view.

If I tap on the UITextField, the Gesturerecognizer catches the long press. Copy, paste, cursor oving is not possible.

I would like to have the Gesturerecognizer be active anywhere in the view except the UITextField, where I would like the default OS behaviour like copy, paste, move the cursor etc.

Is that possible? Can I somehow tell the gesture recognizer to forward the gesture to the UITextFields default?

Answer 1

You have to set a delegate to your UILongPressGestureRecognizer and implement the gestureRecognizer:shouldReceiveTouch: delegate method like this:

- (BOOL) gestureRecognizer:(UIGestureRecognizer *)gestureRecognizer shouldReceiveTouch:(UITouch *)touch
{
    return touch.view != self.textField;
}