Responding to touchesBegan in UIPickerView instead of UIView

Question

I have a UIPickerView that gets faded out to 20% alpha when not in use. I want the user to be able to touch the picker and have it fade back in.

I can get it to work

Answer 1

Here is some code that does what you want:

@interface TouchDetectionView : UIPickerView {

}
- (UIView *)getNextResponderView:(NSSet *)touches withEvent:(UIEvent *)event;
@end
@implementation TouchDetectionView

- (void)touchesBegan:(NSSet *)touches withEvent:(UIEvent *)event
{
    UIView * hitTestView = [self getNextResponderView:touches withEvent:event];
    [hitTestView touchesBegan:touches withEvent:event];
}

- (void)touchesMoved:(NSSet *)touches withEvent:(UIEvent *)event
{
    UIView * hitTestView = [self getNextResponderView:touches withEvent:event];
    [hitTestView touchesMoved:touches withEvent:event];
}

- (void)touchesEnded:(NSSet *)touches withEvent:(UIEvent *)event
{
    UIView * hitTestView = [self getNextResponderView:touches withEvent:event];
    [hitTestView touchesEnded:touches withEvent:event];
}

- (void)touchesCancelled:(NSSet *)touches withEvent:(UIEvent *)event
{
    UIView * hitTestView = [self getNextResponderView:touches withEvent:event];
    [hitTestView touchesCancelled:touches withEvent:event];
}

- (UIView *)hitTest:(CGPoint)point withEvent:(UIEvent *)event
{
    return self;
}

- (UIView *)getNextResponderView:(NSSet *)touches withEvent:(UIEvent *)event
{
    UITouch * touch = [touches anyObject];
    CGPoint point = [touch locationInView:self];
    UIView * hitTestView = [super hitTest:point withEvent:event];

    return ( hitTestView == self ) ? nil : hitTestView;
}