Is there a way to fake a real touch into iPhone OS?

Question

I need to fake a real touch event programmatically, so that any subsequent touch (from the users finger, for example) will immediately result into a -touchesMoved.... message rather than -touchesBegan....

Any solution how to do that? I know Three20, but I need something legal.

Answer 1

Is it not viable to simply set a flag to interpret the next touchesBegan event as a touchesMoved event instead, and have your own code handle figuring out what the latter event would look like?

Answer 2

I'm not sure if I got you right, but if you want touchesBegan act like touchesMoved why don't do like:

- (void)touchesBegan:(NSSet *)touches withEvent:(UIEvent *)event 
{
   if(specialModeOn)//I don't know if you need this
   {
     [self touchesMoved:touches withEvent:event];
   }
   else
   {
     //whatever touchesBegan should do normally
   }
}