I took some info gleaned from Paul Solt and Anoime's answers, and added that to an existing category I have made for UIViewController to allow making any UIView draggable, to now make it pinchable using gestures and transforms.
Note: this dirties the tag property of the view you are making draggable/pinchable. So if you needed the tag for something else, you can consider placing that value in the NSMutableDictionary being used by this technique. That's available as [self dictForView:theView]
Implementing in your project:
You can make any subview within the view controllers "view" draggable or pinchable (or both)
place a single line of code in your viewDidLoad (for example:)
[self makeView:mySubView draggable:YES pinchable:YES minPinchScale:0.75 maxPinchScale:1.0];
turn it off in viewDidUnload (releases guestures & dictionary):
[self makeView:mySubView draggable:NO pinchable:NO minPinchScale:1.0 maxPinchScale:1.0];
DragAndPinchScale.h file
#import <UIKit/UIKit.h>
@interface UIViewController (DragAndPinchScale)
-(void) makeView:(UIView*)aView
draggable:(BOOL)draggable
pinchable:(BOOL)pinchable
minPinchScale:(CGFloat)minPinchScale
maxPinchScale:(CGFloat)maxPinchScale;
-(NSMutableDictionary *) dictForView:(UIView *)theView;
-(NSMutableDictionary *) dictForViewGuestures:(UIGestureRecognizer *)guesture;
@end
DragAndPinchScale.m file
#import "DragAndPinchScale.h"
@implementation UIViewController (DragAndPinchScale)
-(NSMutableDictionary *) dictForView:(UIView *)theView{
NSMutableDictionary *dict = (NSMutableDictionary*) (void*) theView.tag;
if (!dict) {
dict = [[NSMutableDictionary dictionary ] retain];
theView.tag = (NSInteger) (void *) dict;
}
return dict;
}
-(NSMutableDictionary *) dictForViewGuestures:(UIGestureRecognizer *)guesture {
return [self dictForView:guesture.view];
}
- (IBAction)fingersDidPinchInPinchableView:(UIPinchGestureRecognizer *)fingers {
NSMutableDictionary *dict = [self dictForViewGuestures:fingers];
UIView *viewToZoom = fingers.view;
CGFloat lastScale;
if([fingers state] == UIGestureRecognizerStateBegan) {
// Reset the last scale, necessary if there are multiple objects with different scales
lastScale = [fingers scale];
} else {
lastScale = [[dict objectForKey:@"lastScale"] floatValue];
}
if ([fingers state] == UIGestureRecognizerStateBegan ||
[fingers state] == UIGestureRecognizerStateChanged) {
CGFloat currentScale = [[[fingers view].layer valueForKeyPath:@"transform.scale"] floatValue];
// limits to adjust the max/min values of zoom
CGFloat maxScale = [[dict objectForKey:@"maxScale"] floatValue];
CGFloat minScale = [[dict objectForKey:@"minScale"] floatValue];
CGFloat newScale = 1 - (lastScale - [fingers scale]);
newScale = MIN(newScale, maxScale / currentScale);
newScale = MAX(newScale, minScale / currentScale);
CGAffineTransform transform = CGAffineTransformScale([[fingers view] transform], newScale, newScale);
viewToZoom.transform = transform;
lastScale = [fingers scale]; // Store the previous scale factor for the next pinch gesture call
}
[dict setObject:[NSNumber numberWithFloat:lastScale]
forKey:@"lastScale"];
}
- (void)fingerDidMoveInDraggableView:(UIPanGestureRecognizer *)finger {
NSMutableDictionary *dict = [self dictForViewGuestures:finger];
UIView *viewToDrag = finger.view;
if (finger.state == UIGestureRecognizerStateBegan) {
[dict setObject:[NSValue valueWithCGPoint:viewToDrag.frame.origin]
forKey:@"startDragOffset"];
[dict setObject:[NSValue valueWithCGPoint:[finger locationInView:self.view]]
forKey:@"startDragLocation"];
}
else if (finger.state == UIGestureRecognizerStateChanged) {
NSMutableDictionary *dict = (NSMutableDictionary*) (void*) viewToDrag.tag;
CGPoint stopLocation = [finger locationInView:self.view];
CGPoint startDragLocation = [[dict valueForKey:@"startDragLocation"] CGPointValue];
CGPoint startDragOffset = [[dict valueForKey:@"startDragOffset"] CGPointValue];
CGFloat dx = stopLocation.x - startDragLocation.x;
CGFloat dy = stopLocation.y - startDragLocation.y;
// CGFloat distance = sqrt(dx*dx + dy*dy );
CGRect dragFrame = viewToDrag.frame;
CGSize selfViewSize = self.view.frame.size;
if (!UIDeviceOrientationIsPortrait(self.interfaceOrientation)) {
selfViewSize = CGSizeMake(selfViewSize.height,selfViewSize.width);
}
selfViewSize.width -= dragFrame.size.width;
selfViewSize.height -= dragFrame.size.height;
dragFrame.origin.x = MIN(selfViewSize.width, MAX(0,startDragOffset.x+dx));
dragFrame.origin.y = MIN(selfViewSize.height,MAX(0,startDragOffset.y+dy));
viewToDrag.frame = dragFrame;
}
else if (finger.state == UIGestureRecognizerStateEnded) {
[dict removeObjectForKey:@"startDragLocation"];
[dict removeObjectForKey:@"startDragOffset"];
}
}
-(void) makeView:(UIView*)aView
draggable:(BOOL)draggable
pinchable:(BOOL)pinchable
minPinchScale:(CGFloat)minPinchScale
maxPinchScale:(CGFloat)maxPinchScale{
NSMutableDictionary *dict = (NSMutableDictionary*) (void*) aView.tag;
if (!(pinchable || draggable)) {
if (dict){
[dict release];
aView.tag = 0;
}
return;
}
if (dict) {
UIPanGestureRecognizer *pan =[dict objectForKey:@"UIPanGestureRecognizer"];
if(pan){
if ([aView.gestureRecognizers indexOfObject:pan]!=NSNotFound) {
[aView removeGestureRecognizer:pan];
}
[dict removeObjectForKey:@"UIPanGestureRecognizer"];
}
UIPinchGestureRecognizer *pinch =[dict objectForKey:@"UIPinchGestureRecognizer"];
if(pinch){
if ([aView.gestureRecognizers indexOfObject:pinch]!=NSNotFound) {
[aView removeGestureRecognizer:pinch];
}
[dict removeObjectForKey:@"UIPinchGestureRecognizer"];
}
[dict removeObjectForKey:@"startDragLocation"];
[dict removeObjectForKey:@"startDragOffset"];
[dict removeObjectForKey:@"lastScale"];
[dict removeObjectForKey:@"minScale"];
[dict removeObjectForKey:@"maxScale"];
}
if (draggable) {
UIPanGestureRecognizer *pan = [[UIPanGestureRecognizer alloc] initWithTarget:self action:@selector(fingerDidMoveInDraggableView:)];
pan.minimumNumberOfTouches = 1;
pan.maximumNumberOfTouches = 1;
[aView addGestureRecognizer:pan];
[pan release];
dict = [self dictForViewGuestures:pan];
[dict setObject:pan forKey:@"UIPanGestureRecognizer"];
}
if (pinchable) {
CGAffineTransform initialTramsform = CGAffineTransformMakeScale(1.0, 1.0);
aView.transform = initialTramsform;
UIPinchGestureRecognizer *pinch = [[UIPinchGestureRecognizer alloc] initWithTarget:self action:@selector(fingersDidPinchInPinchableView:)];
[aView addGestureRecognizer:pinch];
[pinch release];
dict = [self dictForViewGuestures:pinch];
[dict setObject:pinch forKey:@"UIPinchGestureRecognizer"];
[dict setObject:[NSNumber numberWithFloat:minPinchScale] forKey:@"minScale"];
[dict setObject:[NSNumber numberWithFloat:maxPinchScale] forKey:@"maxScale"];
}
}
@end
