UIPageViewController Traps All UITapGestureRecognizer Events

Question

It's been a long day at the keyboard so I'm reaching out :-) I have a `UIPageViewController` in a typical implementation that basically follows Apple's standard template. I am trying to add an overlay that will allow the user to do things like touch a button to jump to certain pages or dismiss the view controller to go to another part of the app. My problem is that the `UIPageViewController` is trapping all events from my overlay subview and I am struggling to find a workable solution. Here's some code to help the example... In viewDidLoad ``` // Page creation, pageViewController creation etc.... self.pageViewController.delegate = self; [self.pageViewController setViewControllers:pagesArray direction:UIPageViewControllerNavigationDirectionForward animated:NO completion:NULL]; self.pageViewController.dataSource = self; [self addChildViewController:self.pageViewController]; [self.view addSubview:self.pageViewController.view]; // self.overlay being the overlay view if (!self.overlay) { s…

Accepted Answer

Try to iterate through `UIPageViewController.GestureRecognizers` and assign `self` as a delegate for those gesture and implement

```
-(BOOL)gestureRecognizer:(UIGestureRecognizer *)gestureRecognizer shouldReceiveTouch:(UITouch *)touch;
```

Your code may be like this:

In viewDidLoad

```
for (UIGestureRecognizer * gesRecog in self.pageViewController.gestureRecognizers)
{
        gesRecog.delegate = self;
}
```

And add the following method:

```
-(BOOL)gestureRecognizer:(UIGestureRecognizer *)gestureRecognizer shouldReceiveTouch:(UITouch *)touch
{
    if (touch.view != self.pageViewController.view]
    {
        return NO;
    }
    return YES;
}
```

UIPageViewController Traps All UITapGestureRecognizer Events

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