Question

I have the following problem.
I am using a UILongPressGestureRecognizer to put a UIView into a “toggle mode”. If the UIView is in “toggle mode” the user is able to drag the UIView around the screen. For dragging the UIView around the screen I am using the methods touchesBegan, touchesMoved and touchesEnded.

It works, but: I have to lift my finger in order to drag it, because the touchesBegan method got already called and therefore is not called again and therefore I can’t drag the UIView around the screen.

Is there any way to manually call touchesBegan after UILongPressGestureRecognizer got triggered (UILongPressGestureRecognizer changes a BOOL value and the touchesBegan only works if this BOOL is set to YES).

Answer 1

UILongPressGestureRecognizer is a continuous gesture recognizer, so rather than resorting to touchesMoved or UIPanGestureRecognizer, just check for UIGestureRecognizerStateChanged, e.g.:

- (void)viewDidLoad
{
    [super viewDidLoad];

    UILongPressGestureRecognizer *gesture = [[UILongPressGestureRecognizer alloc] initWithTarget:self action:@selector(handleGesture:)];
    [self.view addGestureRecognizer:gesture];
}

- (void)handleGesture:(UILongPressGestureRecognizer *)gesture
{
    CGPoint location = [gesture locationInView:gesture.view];

    if (gesture.state == UIGestureRecognizerStateBegan)
    {
        // user held down their finger on the screen

        // gesture started, entering the "toggle mode"
    }
    else if (gesture.state == UIGestureRecognizerStateChanged)
    {
        // user did not lift finger, but now proceeded to move finger

        // do here whatever you wanted to do in the touchesMoved
    }
    else if (gesture.state == UIGestureRecognizerStateEnded)
    {
        // user lifted their finger

        // all done, leaving the "toggle mode"
    }
}