Question

I have an UIImage which is shown in an UIImageView. I also have another image in an UIImageView which lays above the first image. I want to be able to drag the second image only within the borders of the first image. To make my goal a bit more clearer look at this image:

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The green pin should be dragable but it should not be possible to drag the pin into the blue (outside of the map).
At the moment the pin is dragable, but I don’t know how to check if the pin is outside of the map.

EDIT:
I used this method in my UIImageView subclass for the drag able pin:

- (UIColor *)colorAtPosition:(CGPoint)position {

CGRect sourceRect = CGRectMake(position.x, position.y, 1.f, 1.f);
CGImageRef imageRef = CGImageCreateWithImageInRect([[MapViewController sharedMapViewController]getImage].CGImage, sourceRect);

CGColorSpaceRef colorSpace = CGColorSpaceCreateDeviceRGB();
unsigned char *buffer = malloc(4);
CGBitmapInfo bitmapInfo = kCGImageAlphaPremultipliedLast | kCGBitmapByteOrder32Big;
CGContextRef context = CGBitmapContextCreate(buffer, 1, 1, 8, 4, colorSpace, bitmapInfo);
CGColorSpaceRelease(colorSpace);
CGContextDrawImage(context, CGRectMake(0.f, 0.f, 1.f, 1.f), imageRef);
CGImageRelease(imageRef);
CGContextRelease(context);

CGFloat r = buffer[0] / 255.f;
CGFloat g = buffer[1] / 255.f;
CGFloat b = buffer[2] / 255.f;
CGFloat a = buffer[3] / 255.f;

free(buffer);

return [UIColor colorWithRed:r green:g blue:b alpha:a];
}

The MapViewController is the Viewcontroller where the UIIImageView for the map is. So i made this class a singleton to get the map-image. But again the values i get for the color are totally wired. Also i updated the photo because my ui got slighty different.

Answer 1

Have you tried implementing the UIResponder’s touch methods in your custom UIViewController and then referencing the 2 UIViews as follows?

- (void)touchesBegan:(NSSet *)touches withEvent:(UIEvent *)event
{
    UITouch* t = [touches anyObject];
    if (t.tapCount == 1 &&  [yourPinView pointInside:pt withEvent:nil])
    {
        CGPoint pt = [t locationInView:yourMapView];
        if ([self getColorOfPt:pt] != <blue>)
        {
            state = MOVING;
        }
    }
}

- (void)touchesMoved:(NSSet *)touches withEvent:(UIEvent *)event
{
    if (MOVING == state)
    {
        UITouch* t = [touches anyObject];

        // Move the pin only if the current point color is not blue.
        if ([self getColorOfPt:pt] != <blue>)
        {
            CGRect r = yourPinView.frame;
            r.origin.x = <new point based on diff>
            r.origin.y = <new point based on diff>
            yourPinView.frame = r;
        }
    }
}

- (void)touchesEnded:(NSSet *)touches withEvent:(UIEvent *)event
{
    UITouch* t = [touches anyObject];
    if (t.tapCount == 1 && MOVING == state)
    {
        state == NOT_MOVING;
    }
}