Make a UIScrollView get touch events with a UITextView as a subview

Question

Hi,

I have a UIScrollView that contains a UITextView (not editable). I can't make the UIScrollView gets the touch events, UITextView seems to get them and keep them . Any idea how to let UIScrollView gets the touch events?

I want UITextView to still be scrollable vertically (my UIScrollView is scrollable only horizontally).

Answer 1

In your UITextView subclass, do this:

- (void)touchesBegan:(NSSet *)touches withEvent:(UIEvent *)event {
    [self.nextResponder touchesBegan:touches withEvent:event];
}

If you want UITextView to handle the touches too, then I believe you can do this:

- (void)touchesBegan:(NSSet *)touches withEvent:(UIEvent *)event {
    [self.nextResponder touchesBegan:touches withEvent:event];
    [super touchesBegan:touches withEvent:event];
}

but it might result in really weird behavior.