iOS gesture recognizer to recognize gestures in subviews

Hey guys,

I'm trying to replicate the behaviour of the HUD in the Videos app (when watching a video). So to put it in words there is a custom view at the top of the screen which fades in and fades out after about 4 seconds. If you tap on the view or any of its subviews(UIButton, UISlider), the timer resets back to 0 and starts over.

I have everything working except for that timer which should reset when a subview is tapped.

Ive got a gesture recognizer on the custom view but the target-action method doesnt get called when I touch a subview.

MattInOz said:

What is the stacking order of the view that has the gesture attached?

Check there isn't a view above that is stopping touches from being passed down the responder chain.

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Thanks for the replay, I got it working at first using spaghetti code in the delegate method - gestureRecognizer:shouldReceiveTouch: but then I did a bit of fiddling around and it turned out was what I was missing. After adding that, I no longer needed the delegate method.
Thanks