How to remove gesture recogniser

Question

SO, I am adding a gesture recogniser to an overlay view. When tapped on screen i want this overlay to go away. Having said that adding a gesture recognizer overrides the "touch up inside" and other button click events. I need this back therefore i need to removegesturerecognizer. I can use this method however i have a problem. My code below -

- (void)helpClicked
{
    CGRect visibleBounds = [self convertRect:[self bounds] toView:viewContainer];
    CGFloat minimumVisibleX = CGRectGetMinX(visibleBounds);
    UIImageView * helpOverlay = [[UIImageView alloc]initWithFrame:CGRectMake(minimumVisibleX, 0, 1024, 768)];
    UIImage * helpImage = [UIImage imageNamed:@"HelpOverLay.png"];
    [helpOverlay setImage:helpImage];
    helpOverlay.tag = 50;
    self.scrollEnabled = NO;
    [self addSubview:helpOverlay]; 
    UITapGestureRecognizer *tap = [[UITapGestureRecognizer alloc] 
                               initWithTarget:self
                               action:@selector(dismissView)];

[self addGestureRecognizer:tap];    

}

Here i am taking the overlay off the other view.

- (void) dismissView
{
    UIView *overlay = [self viewWithTag:50];
    [overlay removeFromSuperview];
    self.scrollEnabled = YES;
}

My question is how do i remove the gesture recognizer in the second method? I cant pass the variable tap into this method nor can i remove it in the previous method either. Any pointers? Ive been stuck with quite a lot of passing variable problems when it comes to events.

Answer 1

This loop will remove all gesture recognizers a view has

for (UIGestureRecognizer *recognizer in self.view.gestureRecognizers) {
    [self.view removeGestureRecognizer:recognizer];
}