tap gesture recognizer - which object was tapped?

suMi picture suMi · Feb 5, 2014 · Viewed 114k times · Source

I'm new to gesture recognizers so maybe this question sounds silly: I'm assigning tap gesture recognizers to a bunch of UIViews. In the method is it possible to find out which of them was tapped somehow or do I need to find it out using the point that was tapped on screen?

for (NSUInteger i=0; i<42; i++) {
        float xMultiplier=(i)%6;
        float yMultiplier= (i)/6;
        float xPos=xMultiplier*imageWidth;
        float yPos=1+UA_TOP_WHITE+UA_TOP_BAR_HEIGHT+yMultiplier*imageHeight;
        UIView *greyRect=[[UIView alloc]initWithFrame:CGRectMake(xPos, yPos, imageWidth, imageHeight)];
        [greyRect setBackgroundColor:UA_NAV_CTRL_COLOR];

        greyRect.layer.borderColor=[UA_NAV_BAR_COLOR CGColor];
        greyRect.layer.borderWidth=1.0f;
        greyRect.userInteractionEnabled=YES;
        [greyGridArray addObject:greyRect];
        [self.view addSubview:greyRect];
        NSLog(@"greyGrid: %i: %@", i, greyRect);

        //make them touchable
        UITapGestureRecognizer *letterTapRecognizer = [[UITapGestureRecognizer alloc] initWithTarget:self action:@selector(highlightLetter)];
        letterTapRecognizer.numberOfTapsRequired = 1;
        [greyRect addGestureRecognizer:letterTapRecognizer];
    }

Answer

Mani picture Mani · Feb 5, 2014

Define your target selector(highlightLetter:) with argument as

UITapGestureRecognizer *letterTapRecognizer = [[UITapGestureRecognizer alloc] initWithTarget:self action:@selector(highlightLetter:)];

Then you can get view by

- (void)highlightLetter:(UITapGestureRecognizer*)sender {
     UIView *view = sender.view; 
     NSLog(@"%d", view.tag);//By tag, you can find out where you had tapped. 
}