tap gesture recognizer - which object was tapped?

Question

I\'m new to gesture recognizers so maybe this question sounds silly: I\'m assigning tap gesture recognizers to a bunch of UIViews. In the method is it possible to find out w

Answer 1

Swift 5

In my case I needed access to the UILabel that was clicked, so you could do this inside the gesture recognizer.

let label:UILabel = gesture.view as! UILabel

The gesture.view property contains the view of what was clicked, you can simply downcast it to what you know it is.

@IBAction func tapLabel(gesture: UITapGestureRecognizer) {

        let label:UILabel = gesture.view as! UILabel

        guard let text = label.attributedText?.string else {
            return
        }

        print(text)
}

So you could do something like above for the tapLabel function and in viewDidLoad put...

.addGestureRecognizer(UITapGestureRecognizer(target:self, action: #selector(tapLabel(gesture:))))

Just replace with your actual label name