Get original touch location from UIPanGestureRecognizer

Question

My view has a UIPanGestureRecognizer added to it.
The problem is that by the time the touch is recognized as a pan gesture, it has to be moved a few points, and I can't extract the original touch location at the UIGestureRecognizerStateBegan state. In this state the translationInView: is (0,0), and any subsequent moves are calculated from this point, and not from the original.

Is there a way to extract the original location from the gesture recognizer itself, or do I need to override the touchesBegan: method?

Answer 1

You should be able to set the delegate for the gesture recogniser and implement

- (BOOL)gestureRecognizer:(UIGestureRecognizer *)gestureRecognizer shouldReceiveTouch:(UITouch *)touch

to get the initial touch.