#Ios multitouch gestures windows

If the view is also unable to handle the event it would then be passed to the view controller and so on. If the button is unable to handle the event it will need to be passed up to the view object.

If the user touches the screen over the button then the button, as first responder, will receive the event. Take, for example, a UIView with a UIButton subview. If the first responder is not able to handle the event it will also pass it to the next responder in the chain and so on until it either reaches a responder that handles the event or it reaches the end of the chain (the UIApplication object) where it will either be handled or discarded. Having handled the event, the responder then has the option of discarding that event, or passing it up to the next responder in the response chain (defined by the object’s nextResponder property) for further processing, and so on up the chain. If the first responder has been programmed to handle the type of event received it does so (for example a button may have an action defined to call a particular method when it receives a touch event). The operating system subsequently creates an event associated with the interaction and passes it into the currently active application’s event queue where it is subsequently picked up by the event loop and passed to the current first responder object the first responder being the object with which the user was interacting when this event was triggered (for example a UIButton or UIView object). When the user interacts with the touch screen of an iPhone or iPad the hardware detects the physical contact and notifies the operating system. In order to fully understand the concepts behind the handling of touch screen gestures it is first necessary to spend a little more time learning about the responder chain.

#Ios multitouch gestures windows

In the chapter entitled Understanding iOS 7 Views, Windows and the View Hierarchy we spent some time talking about the view hierarchy of an application’s user interface and how that hierarchy also defined part of the application’s responder chain.