touches in touch event handling in UIView vs UIViewControllers

Question

So, I'm capturing multiple touches and determining the number and where each of the touches occurred and I'm seeing different behavior between a UIView UIViewController.

Basically, the event handler is coded below: (in this case the touchesEnded, but it really doesn't matter). What happens in the View, is that I get the entire collection of touches, but in the controller, I get only one touch at a time, that is there is never a collection of touches, but the TouchesEnded gets executed for each touch that occurred in the same moment.

I add the subviews as identically as possible... Can someone 'spain to me what's going on? Why doesn't the controller version give me the collection?

-(void)touchesEnded:(NSSet *)touches withEvent:(UIEvent *)event
{ 
    int total = 0;

    for (UITouch *touch in touches) 
        {
            for(UIView *myView in [contentView subviews])
            {
                if (CGRectContainsPoint([myView frame], [touch locationInView:self.view]))
                    total++;  // this is always 1 for the UIViewController
                              // but I get the full number within the UIView version
            }
 }
}

Answer 1

I suspect you are getting the touches but that the views are different. Check that contentView is the same and has the same subviews.