Handling touches inside UIWebview

Question

I have created a subclass of UIWebView , and have implemented the touchesBegan, touchesMoved and touchesEnded methods.

Answer 1

I'm not sure if this is what you want (it's not what you asked for, but it might work depending on what your end game is), but you could instead interpret the touches in JavaScript from inside the UIWebView, and get javascript to do

document.location='http://null/'+xCoord+'/'+yCoord; // Null is arbitrary.

Then you can catch that using the UIWebView's delegate method

- (BOOL)webView:(UIWebView *)webView shouldStartLoadWithRequest:(NSURLRequest *)request navigationType:(UIWebViewNavigationType)navigationType

And if the request.URL.host (or whatever it is) isEqualToString:@"null" take the relevant action (and return NO instead of YES). You can even add the JS to each page by doing something like:

- (void)webViewDidFinishLoad:(UIWebView *)webView {
  [webView stringByEvaluatingJavaScriptFromString:@"window.ontouchstart=function(/* ... */);"];
}

Hope this helps?