How can I hook up an IBAction method to a plain view for a touch up event?

Question

I have created a blank new view-based application project in Xcode. It generated a myProjectViewController and an nib for it. In that nib for that view controller, there is just one view. I wanted to test some event handling stuff and created an -(IBAction) method that will just log a "hello world" when I touch the view. But for some reason, IB doesn't give me a chance to hook up the action. What am I doing wrong there? I also tried to put a UIView as subview there. When I drag from that to File's Owner (whoose class is the myProjectViewController, where I have the IBAction in the header), doesn't even mention the IBAction. But it actually should, right?

Answer 1

There is an easy way to achieve this. Goto your Interface builder of your class >> Select the view u want to add action to >> then change its custom class from IDENTITY INSPECTOR from UIView to 'UIControl'. Now u can add any IBAction method to this view.

Answer 2

IBAction is just a tag that you add to a method declaration that identifies that method as a candidate for being connected to a control's action.

An IBAction method is the method that receives the action message of some other control.

UIViews don't send any actions. UIControls do. So there's nothing to hook up from a plain UIView to your object. You can only hook up IBActions to UIControl subclasses and UIBarButtonItems.