How to setup UIView touch handler without subclassing

Question

How do I capture touch events such as - (void)touchesBegan:(NSSet *)touches withEvent:(UIEvent *)event without subclassing a UIView nor using UIViewControllers.

What happens is that I have a simple UIView created programmatically and I need to detect basic tap events.

Answer 1

If you are writing your app for iOS 4, use UIGestureRecognizer. You can then do what you want. Recognize gestures without subclassing.

Otherwise, subclassing is the way to go.

Answer 2

There's just no reason not to. If you subclass and add nothing it's just a UIView called by another name. All you are doing is intercepting those functions that you are interested in. Don't forget you can do [super touchesBegan:touches] inside your subclass' touchesBegan if you don't want to stop responders up the chain from getting those events too.