Unable to move rows in a UITableView even when grabber are displaying

Question

I have a somewhat weird issue, and I can't quite figure out what am I missing. I have a UITableView which is editable in place (i.e. when my UI is loaded, I send my table the setEditing:YES animated:YES message). The last row in the table is intended to be the "Add New" row. All rows except the last row in my table can be moved around. None of the rows can be deleted.

The rows show up correctly, and the grabbers shows up on the right side of all rows except the last row (as intended). The problem is that I am unable to move the rows. When I tap on the grabber to move the row, it kind of jiggles in place, but I can't drag it up or down. Here's the relevant snippet of code:

- (UITableViewCellEditingStyle)tableView:(UITableView *)aTableView editingStyleForRowAtIndexPath:(NSIndexPath *)indexPath {
    return UITableViewCellEditingStyleNone;
}

- (BOOL)tableView:(UITableView *)tableView canEditRowAtIndexPath:(NSIndexPath *)indexPath {   
    if (indexPath.row == [self.itemArray count] ) {
        return NO;
    }
    return YES;
}

- (BOOL)tableView:(UITableView *)tableView canMoveRowAtIndexPath:(NSIndexPath *)indexPath {
    if (indexPath.row == [self.itemArray count]) {
        return NO;
    }
    return YES;
}

- (void)tableView:(UITableView *)tableView moveRowAtIndexPath:(NSIndexPath *)fromIndexPath toIndexPath:(NSIndexPath *)toIndexPath {
    Item *item = [self.itemArray objectAtIndex:fromIndexPath.row];
    [self.itemArray removeObjectAtIndex:fromIndexPath.row];
    [self.itemArray insertObject:item atIndex:toIndexPath.row];
}

- (NSIndexPath *)tableView:(UITableView *)tableView targetIndexPathForMoveFromRowAtIndexPath:(NSIndexPath *)sourceIndexPath toProposedIndexPath:(NSIndexPath *)proposedDestinationIndexPath {
    if ([proposedDestinationIndexPath row] < [self.itemArray count]) {
        return proposedDestinationIndexPath;
    }
    NSIndexPath *betterIndexPath = [NSIndexPath indexPathForRow:[self.itemArray count]-1 inSection:0];
    return betterIndexPath;
}

On trying to debug, it seems that the tableView:moveRowAtIndexPath: gets called almost immediately even as I am holding on to the grabber (i.e. I have not lifted my finger yet). Moreover, my tableView:targetIndexPathForMoveFromRowAtIndexPath:proposedDestinationIndexPath: does not get invoked at all.

Any thoughts on what am I doing wrong? Any suggestions on what I should try to fix this issue?

Answer 1

I had the same problem, and @wilsontgh & @Andy responses took me in the right direction. However I couldn't afford removing the needed PanRecognizer from the superview, nor disabling it in certain views. What worked for me was to set this on the main view recognizer, which avoids cancelling touches handled to other views/recognizers.

panRecognizer.cancelsTouchesInView = NO;