How to get touches when parent view has userInteractionEnabled set to NO in iOS

Question

When the parent view has userInteractionEnabled=NO, its subviews will not accept touch events even if their userInteractionEnabled property is set to YES.

Is there any way to still get touch events in subviews?

Answer 1

To get a view to let touches pass-through but give its subviews handle touches, let userInteractionEnabled on that view to YES and, instead, use this snippet:

-(id)hitTest:(CGPoint)point withEvent:(UIEvent *)event {     id hitView = [super hitTest:point withEvent:event];     if (hitView == self) return nil;     else return hitView; } 

Source: http://cocoaheads.tumblr.com/post/2130871776/ignore-touches-to-uiview-subclass-but-not-to-its

Answer 2

Setting the parent view's userInteractionEnabled property to NO also implicitly sets its subviews userInteractionEnabled properties to NO as well. I don't know of a way to get touch events to the subview using the approach that you have described, but perhaps you could create a view that simply overlays the views that you want users to interact with, but is not the parent of those views.