iOS single and double taps on UITableView

[straber]

I have a subclass of UITableView which I want to perform a different action depending on whether the user single taps a cell or double taps. The problem is that the double tap causes both events to fire.

I'm handling it like this:

- (void)touchesEnded:(NSSet *)touches withEvent:(UIEvent *)event {
    if(((UITouch *)[touches anyObject]).tapCount == 2) {
        wasDoubleTap = YES;
        NSLog(@"double tap");
    }
    else {
        wasDoubleTap = NO;
        NSLog(@"single tap");
    }
    [super touchesEnded:touches withEvent:event];
}

and double tapping causes "single tap" and then "double tap" to print out.

Does anyone know of any way I can suppress the single tap to see if it's actually a double tap?

Thanks.

 

[jnoxx]

Why not use gesturerecognizers instead? Much more stable and were released because the touchesBegan is "so so.."

 

[PhoneyDeveloper]

These days one does this by using gesture recognizers. You create a single tab and a double tap gesture recognizer. If are only interested in the double tap you make the single tap recognizer fail if the double tap recognizer succeeds.