UIButton delayed state change

Question

I have a UIButton subview inside of a UITableViewCell.

When this button is touched, the user must hold the button for about a half second f

Answer 1

Up for David Hodge's answer.

I just want to add a way to remove that "only negative side effect", already described by David: if you start scrolling inside a UIcontrol in a UIScrollView with delayContentTouches=NO, scrolling doesn't work.

SOLUTION Subclass UIScrollView (or UITableView as the original question) and override:

-(BOOL) touchesShouldCancelInContentView:(UIView *)view {   
return YES; 
}

Your UIControls inside UIScrollView/UITableView will change their state immediately on tap and the scrollviews will be able to scroll even if the touch starts on some UIControl. Works like a charm.