UITapGestureRecognizer does not respond to subview area outside parent view

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I have a UIView called view1. view1 has a subview called subview. I added UITapGestureRecognizer to subview as follow:

UITapGestureRecognizer *recognizer = [[UITapGestureRecognizer alloc]initWithTarget:self action:@selector(handleTap:)];
[subview addGestureRecognizer:recognizer];

If I tapped an area overlapped between subview and view1 then the handleTap method got called. But if I tapped an area on the subview that was outside view1, then handleTap never got called. Is this behavior right? If not, any suggestion to what should I check for?

btw: The UIPanGestureRecognizer works fine. It does not exhibit the behavior mentioned above.

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score 2 · Answer 1 · edited Jun 08 '22 at 14:17

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That is the default behaviour of UIView, the subview should be inside parent view bounds. If you want something different is better you create a custom subclass of the top view and override (BOOL)pointInside:(CGPoint)point withEvent:(UIEvent *)event

edited Jun 08 '22 at 14:17

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answered Jun 02 '12 at 22:13

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Is this also true for a view presented in a FormSheet? – rraallvv Feb 12 '18 at 18:58

score 1 · Answer 2 · edited May 23 '17 at 11:54

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You need to customize the parent view and change the way it handles touches. See this question for more details.

edited May 23 '17 at 11:54

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answered Jun 02 '12 at 22:11

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score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Aug 18 '18 at 00:34

I've found the answers talking about overriding pointInside:withEvent: to be lacking detail on explanation or implementation. In the original question, when the user taps in the black, unlabeled area/view (we'll call it view2), the event framework will only trigger hitTest:withEvent: for the main window down through the view2 (and its immediate subviews), and will never hit it for view1 because the point tested for in pointInside:point is outside of the bounds of view1's frame. In order to get subview1 to register the gesture, you should override view2's implementation of hitTest:withEvent to include a check for subview's pointInside:point

//This presumes view2 has a reference to view1 (since they're nested in the example).
//In scenarios where you don't have access, you'd need to implement this
//in a higher level in the view hierachy

//In view2
override func hitTest(_ point: CGPoint, with event: UIEvent?) -> UIView? {

        let ptRelativeToSubviewBounds = convert(point, to: view1.subview)
        if view1.subview.point(inside:ptRelativeToSubviewBounds, with:event){
            return view1.subview
        }
        else{
            return super.hitTest(point, with: event)
        }

UITapGestureRecognizer does not respond to subview area outside parent view

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