objective-c touch-events - objective-c

Question

I've got a set of Images and would like to know which I have touched. How could I implement that...?
To be more precise:
A "Home-Class" will instantiate a couple of Image-Classes:
Image *myImageView = [[Image alloc] initWithImage:myImage];
The image-class looks something like this:
- (id) initWithImage: (UIImage *) anImage
{
if ((self = [super initWithImage:anImage]))
{
self.userInteractionEnabled = YES;
}
return self;
}
later on, I use these touches-event-methods also in the Image-class:
- (void) touchesBegan:(NSSet *)touches withEvent:(UIEvent *)event{}
- (void) touchesEnded:(NSSet *)touches withEvent:(UIEvent *)event{}
My problem at the moment: the touchesBegan/Ended methods will be fired no matter where I touched the screen, but I would like to find out which of the Images has been touched.....

Answer 1

Whenever you get the touch, you check if that touch happen in between your image area. Here is the example code, lets suppose you have UIImage object called img.
- (void) touchesBegan:(NSSet *)touches withEvent:(UIEvent *)event {
UITouch *touch = [[event allTouches] anyObject];
CGPoint location = [touch locationInView:self.view];
if (location.x >= img.x && location.x <= img.x && location.y >= img.y && location.y <= img.y) {
// your code here...
}
}

Answer 2

Inside your *.h (interface) file:
#interface MyViewController : UIViewController{
IBOutlet UIImageView *imageViewOne;
IBOutlet UIImageView *imageViewTwo;
UIImageView * alphaImage;
}
-(BOOL)isTouch:(UITouch *)touch WithinBoundsOf:(UIImageView *)imageView;
Place UIImageView components on your *.xib and bind them with 'imageViewOne' and 'imageViewTwo' using the "File's owner".
Go to the *.m (implementation) file and:
- (void)touchesBegan:(NSSet *)touches withEvent:(UIEvent *)event
{
UITouch *touch = [touches anyObject];
if ([self isTouch:touch WithinBoundsOf:imageViewOne])
{
NSLog(#"Fires first action...");
}
else if([self isTouch:touch WithinBoundsOf:imageViewTwo]){
NSLog(#"Fires second action...");
}
}
//(Optional 01) This is used to reset the transparency of the touched UIImageView
-(void)touchesEnded:(NSSet *)touches withEvent:(UIEvent *)event{
[alphaImage setAlpha:1.0];
}
-(BOOL)isTouch:(UITouch *)touch WithinBoundsOf:(UIImageView *)imageView{
CGRect _frameRectangle=[imageView frame];
CGFloat _imageTop=_frameRectangle.origin.y;
CGFloat _imageLeft=_frameRectangle.origin.x;
CGFloat _imageRight=_frameRectangle.size.width+_imageLeft;
CGFloat _imageBottom=_frameRectangle.size.height+_imageTop;
CGPoint _touchPoint = [touch locationInView:self.view];
/*NSLog(#"image top %f",_imageTop);
NSLog(#"image bottom %f",_imageBottom);
NSLog(#"image left %f",_imageLeft);
NSLog(#"image right %f",_imageRight);
NSLog(#"touch happens at %f-%f",_touchPoint.x,_touchPoint.y);*/
if(_touchPoint.x>=_imageLeft &&
_touchPoint.x<=_imageRight &&
_touchPoint.y>=_imageTop &&
_touchPoint.y<=_imageBottom){
[imageView setAlpha:0.5];//optional 01 -adds a transparency changing effect
alphaImage=imageView;//optional 01 -marks the UIImageView which deals with the transparency changing effect for the moment.
return YES;
}else{
return NO;
}
}
That's how I handled that. I got the idea having read the post of "itsaboutcode".