Detecting touch events on UILabel

Question

I have a UILabel that I am adding programmatically to my main view. I then add a gesture recognizer to get touch events on the label:

UITapGestureRecognizer *recog = [[UITapGestureRecognizer alloc] initWithTarget:self action:@selector(didTouchNotification)];
[notification addGestureRecognizer:recog];
[recog release];

However, nothing fires when the label is touched. I logged all subviews to make sure the label was on top, and it is. The only way I can get the recognizer to work is if I add it to the underlying view, but that isn't much help. Does anyone know why this label is behaving so "transparently"?

Happy holidays!

Answer 1

UILabel has its userInteractionEnabled property set to NO by default so it does not receive touch events and gesture recognizer does not work. Try to enable user interaction for your label:

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notification.userInteractionEnabled = YES;
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