Detect user touches on MKMapView in iOS 5

Question

I have a MKMapView in a ViewController and would like to detect users' gestures when he/she touches the map with these methods:

- (void)touchesBegan:(NSSet *)touches withEvent:(UIEvent *)event;
- (void)touchesMoved:(NSSet *)touches withEvent:(UIEvent *)event;
- (void)touchesEnded:(NSSet *)touches withEvent:(UIEvent *)event;
- (void)touchesCancelled:(NSSet *)touches withEvent:(UIEvent *)event;

The app works fine with iOS 3, iOS 4 but when I debug the app with iPhone running on iOS 5, I see this message:

Pre-iOS 5.0 touch delivery method forwarding relied upon. Forwarding -touchesCancelled:withEvent: to <MKAnnotationContainerView: 0x634790; frame = (0 0; 262144 262144); autoresizesSubviews = NO; layer = <CALayer: 0x634710>>

and the code in the above 4 methods are not reached.

Do you know how to fix it?

Thanks.

Answer 1

Some form of UIGestureRecognizer can help you out. Here's an example of a tap recognizer being used on a map view; let me know if this isn't what you're looking for.

// in viewDidLoad...

// Create map view
MKMapView *mapView = [[MKMapView alloc] initWithFrame:(CGRect){ CGPointZero, 200.f, 200.f }];
[self.view addSubview:mapView];
_mapView = mapView;

// Add tap recognizer, connect it to the view controller
UITapGestureRecognizer *tapRecognizer = [[UITapGestureRecognizer alloc] initWithTarget:self action:@selector(mapViewTapped:)];
[mapView addGestureRecognizer:tapRecognizer];

// ...

// Handle touch event
- (void)mapViewTapped:(UITapGestureRecognizer *)recognizer
{
    CGPoint pointTappedInMapView = [recognizer locationInView:_mapView];
    CLLocationCoordinate2D geoCoordinatesTapped = [_mapView convertPoint:pointTappedInMapView toCoordinateFromView:_mapView];

    switch (recognizer.state) {
        case UIGestureRecognizerStateBegan:
            /* equivalent to touchesBegan:withEvent: */
            break;

        case UIGestureRecognizerStateChanged:
            /* equivalent to touchesMoved:withEvent: */
            break;

        case UIGestureRecognizerStateEnded:
            /* equivalent to touchesEnded:withEvent: */
            break;

        case UIGestureRecognizerStateCancelled:
            /* equivalent to touchesCancelled:withEvent: */
            break;

        default:
            break;
    }
}