I want to be able to make a gesture recognizer listening for a two

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Asked: June 13, 20262026-06-13T00:17:42+00:00 2026-06-13T00:17:42+00:00

I want to be able to make a gesture recognizer listening for a two

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I want to be able to make a gesture recognizer listening for a two finger swipe, anywhere on the screen.

Right now I have a UITableView in a sub-view that scrolls, of course, and it doesn’t seem to pick up the UIGestureRecognizer that I set on the view. When you use the two fingers, it just scrolls…

Is there a way to make the entire view, maybe superview, listen for a two finger touch and when it recognizes it, it will instead of scrolling the table view, do what I want it to do?

EDIT: Heres my code but this is suposed to be a very general question. I just want to be able to have UIGestureRecognizers across the entire view, the whole thing.

navBarTitle.title = @"Crunch";

//opening the menuView from launch

//setup the customtable view as a subview in menuView
SDMenuViewController *mvc = [[[SDMenuViewController alloc] initWithNibName:@"SDNestedTableView" bundle:nil] autorelease];
[self addChildViewController:mvc];
[mvc didMoveToParentViewController:self];
[menuView addSubview:mvc.view];

[mvc.view setFrame:CGRectMake(mvc.view.frame.origin.x, mvc.view.frame.origin.y, mvc.view.frame.size.width, mvc.view.frame.size.height + 44)]; //add navBarHeight, for some strage reason

//add swipe down gesture on for the menu

UISwipeGestureRecognizer *swipeClose =[[[UISwipeGestureRecognizer alloc] initWithTarget:self action:@selector(closeMenu)] autorelease];
 swipeClose.numberOfTouchesRequired = 2;
 swipeClose.direction = UISwipeGestureRecognizerDirectionUp;

 UISwipeGestureRecognizer *swipeOpen = [[[UISwipeGestureRecognizer alloc] initWithTarget:self action:@selector(openMenu)] autorelease];
 swipeOpen.numberOfTouchesRequired = 2;
 swipeOpen.direction = UISwipeGestureRecognizerDirectionDown;

for (UIGestureRecognizer* rec in menuView.gestureRecognizers) {
    [rec requireGestureRecognizerToFail:swipeClose];
    [rec requireGestureRecognizerToFail:swipeOpen];
}

for (UIGestureRecognizer* rec in mvc.view.gestureRecognizers) {
    [rec requireGestureRecognizerToFail:swipeClose];
    [rec requireGestureRecognizerToFail:swipeOpen];
}

[mvc.view addGestureRecognizer:swipeClose];
[mvc.view addGestureRecognizer:swipeOpen];

[self.view addGestureRecognizer:swipeClose];
[self.view addGestureRecognizer:swipeOpen];