Getting name of the imageview

Views don't have names.

 

Maybe you could be a bit more specific but remember that UIImageView is a subclass of UIView, which itself is a subclass of UIResponder.

Therefore, a UIImageView has access to UIResponder's touch methods - i.e. the touchesBegan, touchesMoved, touchesEnded methods.

As for the name of the image contained within, this is stored as the image object, accessed through the UIImageView's image property.

So you could say, for example:

Code:

// Setting up the image object
UIImage *anImage = [UIImage imageNamed:@"banana.png"];

// Assigning the image to your image view
[myImageView setImage:anImage];

You can access the image object at any time by accessing the image view's image property. Something like:

Code:

// Get access to the image object inside
UIImage *theImageInsideTheImageView = myImageView.image;

If you frequently need to refer to certain objects, it may be a good idea to set up an instance variable to easily refer to it by declaring the instance variable in the header file and synthesizing it in the implementation.

(Note that although I used it for simplicity above, I would strongly advise against the use of UIImage's imageNamed: method as there are some major memory-related bugs in it. You could use initWithContentsOfFile: instead or implement your own image caching if you need to cache the images.)

 

Use the viewWithTag method that UIImageView inherits from UIView.

Tagging views enables you to keep track of them. When you set up a view, assign the tag property to a unique number:

e.g.

Code:

myView1.tag = 1;

or better still...

Code:

#define TAG_FOR_VIEW_ONE 1
#define TAG_FOR_VIEW_TWO 2

...

myView1.tag = TAG_FOR_VIEW_ONE;
myView2.tag = TAG_FOR_VIEW_TWO;

etc

Then, when you need to access views:

Code:

UIImageView *myView1;
myView1 = (UIImageView *)[self.view viewWithTag:TAG_FOR_VIEW_ONE];

(self.view in the example above is the view for which the tagged view is a subview of).

Use the touchesBegan, touchesMoved and touchesEnded methods to execute code when a touch occurs on any of these view. It would probably be best to make a custom subclass for your image views and then implement the touch methods there.

Or, consider using a UIButton instead if you just want to implement button functionality.

 

Does the UIEvent not contain a pointer to the originating view?