name of UIView that was touched

Question

How can I get the name of the [touch view] in the touchesbegan event. So if it were UIView *aaaaaview I would get aaaaaview as the return; Thank You, nonono

Answer 1

"UIView *aaaaaView" just refers to a place in memory. So if you had

UIView *aView;
UIView *anotherView;
aView = anotherView;

and the user touched a UIView, would the view's name be "aView" or "anotherView"? In particular, a UIView has no knowledge of the name of the variable you use to store it.

I think you're going to have to initialise an NSDictionary mapping names to UIViews.

Something in your -viewDidLoad like this, perhaps:

yourDictionary = [[NSDictionary alloc] initWithObjectsAndKeys:
                          @"aaaaaView", aaaaaView, @"viewTwo", viewTwo, nil];

and then in your event you can say

NSString *viewName = (NSString *) [yourDictionary objectForKey: [touch view]];