Question

I want to try to disable the UITextTapRecognizer, which I think is a built in property of the UITextView, as I suspect it is interfering with a tap gesture recognizer that I want to implement. How is it possible to do this?

Thanks for reading!

Answer 1

I’m not sure this answers your question directly (i.e. “disable the UITextTapRecognizer”), but I think it might help. You can prevent that tapRecognizer from recognizing gestures, thereby basically “disabling” it (I think).

“You can prevent gesture recognizers from looking at specific touches
or from even recognizing a gesture. You can specify these “prevention”
relationships using either delegation methods or overriding methods
declared by the UIGestureRecognizer class.

The UIGestureRecognizerDelegate protocol declares two optional methods
that prevent specific gesture recognizers from recognizing gestures on
a case-by-case basis.”

Try the gestureRecognizerShouldBegin: or gestureRecognizer:shouldReceiveTouch: delegate protocol methods.

“In addition, there are two UIGestureRecognizer methods (declared in
UIGestureRecognizerSubclass.h) that effect the same behavior as these
delegation methods. A subclass can override these methods to define
class-wide prevention rules.”

look at:

- (BOOL)canPreventGestureRecognizer:(UIGestureRecognizer *)preventedGestureRecognizer;
- (BOOL)canBePreventedByGestureRecognizer:(UIGestureRecognizer *)preventingGestureRecognizer;

source: Apple docs (event handling guide for iOS)

I hope it helps!