ios simulator: simulate swipe and drag - objective-c

I have a UIView within a UIScrollView. When i want to simulate the drag event on the UIView, swipe event on the UIScrollView is being triggered.
As per the documentation , there isn't much of a difference between swipe and drag.
Swipe
1- Place the pointer at the start position.
2- Hold the mouse button.
3- Move the pointer in the swipe direction and release the mouse button.
Drag
1- Place the pointer at the start position.
2- Hold down the mouse button.
3- Move the pointer in the drag direction.
On an ipad I can use two fingers two swipe and one finger to drag. Now, how do i go about doing something similar on the simulator; drag instead of a swipe?
Edit 1:
I should have been clearer first up. Anyway, my problem is that the mouse drag is firing the swipe instead of drag, thereby scrolling the scroll view instead of passing on the drag event to the UIView contained by the scroll view.
I am on macbook pro. Two-finger swipe on the touchpad is being ignored. Touch and drag is causing the same thing as mouse-drag.
Thanks

See Jeff LaMarche's quick note on how to do this. It's documented in the same page you're reading, but Jeff's explanation is clearer.
If you want to simulate a two-finger gesture in the iPhone simulator, hold down the option key. You will get two dots on the screen instead of one. The two dots will default to pinching - if you bring the dot closer to the center of the screen, the other dot comes toward the center, making it easy to simulate a pinch in or pinch out.
If you want to do a different two-finger gesture, get the two dots the distance apart that you want them to be, then hold down the shift key, while still holding down the option key. That will lock the position of the two finger presses together so you can do, for example, a two-finger swipe.

see this documentation below:
iOS Simulator User Guide
Just use the mouse to drag the view, aka, left click the view then move the mouse

I ended up disabling the scrolling from the UI and added two buttons to scroll the scroll view. Since this is a work around only for the emulator, I have used #ifndef to hide the buttons while building for the device.

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Press and swipe up to delete a UIView

I'm wanting to make a UIView which acts similar to the iOS home button action where you can swipe a UIView with a gesture upwards until it is off the screen at which point it is deleted.
Although I can achieve the ability using a standard gesture, it does not give much UX feedback and would like to clone the ability to swipe upwards and make the UIView inline with the touch.
I'm wondering how to replicate or clone this ability where you can press and swipe upwards and the UIView will move in accordance to touch and delete.
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Swipe to see options in iPad

How can I implement swipe to see more options? There are lot of libraries that I could readily use, but they all are designed for iPhone apps. In iPad you have a lot of space, and I want to stack the buttons vertically instead of horizontally.
Is there any library for this? If not, how should I go about building this as a custom cell?
I tried building a custom UITableViewCell class which adds a UIScrollView, but it's not the same as showing the buttons beneath the cell.
Based on your inputs I have created a simple custom cell with basic functionality of swipe to see utility buttons and of course buttons stacked vertically.
What I did was, add a UIView beneath the cell's content view and positioned at right. Now depending on the number of buttons provided each button's height is adjusted accordingly. And delegates are provided for button clicks.
Swipe gestures are added. On swiping left it will animate and shift the cell's content view to reveal the button view. On swiping right it will reset the cell to original position.
You can customise it from here onwards as you wish :)
I have uploaded them over here : https://github.com/srikanth-vm/GSSwipeableCell

interactiveGestureRecognizer and panGestureRecognizer together

I have problem. I want realize slide menu, but want keep swipe to back gesture. I add panGestureRecognizer to my View and I get undefined behavior in working app. When I swipe from edge, triggered then one or the other gesture. How can I control it or what I doing wrong?

UIPanGestureRecognizer with UIPageViewController

I am using a UIPageViewController to display certain content. I want to be able to display additional content when the user pulls down on the page using a UIPanGestureRecognizer. I can't seem to figure out what I should add my gesture recognizer to such that it does not cancel any of the pageviewcontroller's actions.
One of the apps I worked on has functionality similar to this. It shows a full-screen UIPageViewController, but if the user drags down on a ribbon on the top right corner, it will slide the whole thing down to reveal a view behind (for settings and other stuff).
I think your problem is that the built-in gesture recognizers are for the page turns. So what you'd want to do is either have something to drag on (such as the ribbon on the top left in my app) that will have its own gestures. OR you can iterate through the gesture recognizers that are assigned to UIPageViewController and get the one that matches the PanGesture, then override it with your own functionality to either delegate the event to the UIPageViewController or do the slide down, based on the type of pan.
Hope that helps.

UIButton events. What's the difference?

I've encountered a problem where my button should remain "pressed down" while it shows popover called from it. Popover is selector for some filter and filter is shown on button itself. When I tap on it and it shows popover it becomes deselected no matter what.
I think I have to redefine it's behavior on touch event and make it respond not to standart touch up inside. Then I wondered what are other events responsible for? But I couldn't find events list in iOS library and in StackOverflow are only questions about incorrect behavior of touch up inside or touch down.
So what's the difference betweeen touch events?
touch cancel - when you touch button but move your finger away and
it remains deselected?
touch down - right on tap.
touch down repeat ??
touch drag enter ??
touch drag exit ??
touch drag inside ??
touch drag outside ??
touch up inside - when you tap and release button remaining in it's
bounds . It changes UIButtons state to Normal.
touch up outside - when you tap and release button leaving it's
bounds ?
other IBActions are not sent by UIButton, right?
Also how those events change UIButton's appearance? Like highlighted or selected?
I'd appreciate a link on good article about IBActions, because I couldn't find it.
From Apple's doc for UIControlEvents:
UIControlEventTouchCancel
A system event canceling the current touches for the control.
UIControlEventTouchDown
A touch-down event in the control.
UIControlEventTouchDownRepeat
A repeated touch-down event in the control; for this event the value of the UITouch tapCount method is greater than one.
UIControlEventTouchDragEnter
An event where a finger is dragged into the bounds of the control.
UIControlEventTouchDragExit
An event where a finger is dragged from within a control to outside its bounds.
UIControlEventTouchDragInside
An event where a finger is dragged inside the bounds of the control.
UIControlEventTouchDragOutside
An event where a finger is dragged just outside the bounds of the control.
UIControlEventTouchUpInside
A touch-up event in the control where the finger is inside the bounds of the control.
UIControlEventTouchUpOutside
A touch-up event in the control where the finger is outside the bounds of the control.
Listed in, what I would consider, order of common use/likelihood of occurrence for a normal button:
UIControlEventTouchDown: The user tapped the button. This fires on the finger/stylus making contact.
UIControlEventTouchUpInside: The user tapped the button. This fires on the finger/stylus contact pulled back away from the screen.
Useful for sliders and drag events like moving a component around. The below are in order of occurrence:
UIControlEventTouchDragInside: Triggered as the finger drags into the button area.
UIControlEventTouchDragExit: Triggered during a drag motion. It is called only once, as the users finger/stylus leaves the bounds of the button.
UIControlEventTouchDragOutside: Triggered during a drag motion, after 'UIControlEventTouchDragExit', and is called continuously, as long as the original touch continues.
UIControlEventTouchUpOutside: This is simply the finger/stylus being lifted BUT only if the finger/stylus is no longer within the bounds of the button. The important thing (and probably obviously) to call out is that the touch had to have been within the button at some point to associate this event with the button.
Note: My understanding is that the above can be helpful for:
Sliders: as you might expect the touch may have been intentional but because of the quick swipe action, their finger movement may be sloppy and lift up outside of the slider area.
Moving components around, as when you push things around a screen you want the movement to happen when the finger/stylus touches the border of the component/object.
Other events:
UIControlEventTouchCancel: Something out of the user's control is cancelling their touch action. Think of this as something "going wrong" on the phone side of things.
UIControlEventTouchDownRepeat: Want to detect when your user is mad and tapping a button furiously? Want to detect if they're still in Windows mode and are trying to "double click"? Or maybe you designed a button to do something different if they tap twice. This event helps with all of those!
References:
SO 1: Dif between UIControlEventTouchDragOutside and UIControlEventTouchDragExit
SO 2: What is UIControlEventTouchCancel?