How to detect touches on UIImageView of UITableViewCell object in the UITableViewCellStyleSubtitle style

Question

I am using the UITableViewCell object in the UITableViewCellStyleSubtitle style (i.e an image view on the left, text label in bold and under that a detail text label) to create my table. Now I need to detect touches on the UIImageView and also to know the indexpath/cell in which the image view was clicked. I tried using

cell.textLabel.text = @"Sometext";
NSString *path = [[NSBundle mainBundle] pathForResource:@"emptystar1" ofType:@"png"];
UIImage *theImage = [UIImage imageWithContentsOfFile:path];
cell.imageView.image = theImage;
cell.imageView.userInteractionEnabled = YES; 

But it's not working. Whenever the image is clicked, didSelectRowAtIndexPath: is called. I don't want to create a separate UITableViewCell and add a custom button to it. Is there any way to detect touches on the UIImageView itself?

Answer 1

In your cellForRowAtIndexPath method add this code

cell.imageView.userInteractionEnabled = YES;
cell.imageView.tag = indexPath.row;

UITapGestureRecognizer *tapped = [[UITapGestureRecognizer alloc] initWithTarget:self action:@selector(myFunction:)];
tapped.numberOfTapsRequired = 1;
[cell.imageView addGestureRecognizer:tapped];   
[tapped release];

And then to check which imageView was clicked, check the flag in selector method

-(void)myFunction :(id) sender
{
    UITapGestureRecognizer *gesture = (UITapGestureRecognizer *) sender;
    NSLog(@"Tag = %d", gesture.view.tag);
}