Question

I try to capture events on a subclassed MKOverlayView with a UIGestureRecognizer.
However the selector never gets fired. Any ideas?

interface:

#import <MapKit/MapKit.h>

@interface XYOverlayView : MKCircleView {}
-(void) viewTapped:(UIGestureRecognizer *)gestureRecognizer;
@end

imp:

@implementation XYOverlayView

- (id)initWithOverlay:(id <MKOverlay>)overlay
{
    if(self = [super initWithOverlay:overlay])
    {
        self.userInteractionEnabled = TRUE;
        self.multipleTouchEnabled = TRUE;

        UITapGestureRecognizer *tapRecogniser = [[UITapGestureRecognizer alloc] initWithTarget:self action:@selector(viewTapped:)];
        [self addGestureRecognizer:tapRecogniser];
        [tapRecogniser release];
    }
    return self;
}

-(void) viewTapped:(UIGestureRecognizer *)gestureRecognizer
{
    NSLog(@"XYOverlayView tapped"); 
}
@end

Answer 1

Did not get this to work. Switched to an custom MKAnnotationView to capture the gestures. This also has the advantage the tapable region in the window stays the same size.