In the app I'm currently designing I have a MKMapView
with overlays on it (customized MKPolylines
btw) and I would like to be able to detect touch events on these overlays and assign a specific action to each overlay. Could any one help me on this one ?
Thanks !
Benja
This can be solved combining How to intercept touches events on a MKMapView or UIWebView objects? and How to determine if an annotation is inside of MKPolygonView (iOS). Add this in viewWillAppear:
WildcardGestureRecognizer * tapInterceptor = [[WildcardGestureRecognizer alloc] init];
tapInterceptor.touchesBeganCallback = ^(NSSet * touches, UIEvent * event) {
UITouch *touch = [touches anyObject];
CGPoint point = [touch locationInView:self.mapView];
CLLocationCoordinate2D coord = [self.mapView convertPoint:point toCoordinateFromView:self.mapView];
MKMapPoint mapPoint = MKMapPointForCoordinate(coord);
for (id overlay in self.mapView.overlays)
{
if ([overlay isKindOfClass:[MKPolygon class]])
{
MKPolygon *poly = (MKPolygon*) overlay;
id view = [self.mapView viewForOverlay:poly];
if ([view isKindOfClass:[MKPolygonView class]])
{
MKPolygonView *polyView = (MKPolygonView*) view;
CGPoint polygonViewPoint = [polyView pointForMapPoint:mapPoint];
BOOL mapCoordinateIsInPolygon = CGPathContainsPoint(polyView.path, NULL, polygonViewPoint, NO);
if (mapCoordinateIsInPolygon) {
debug(@"hit!")
} else {
debug(@"miss!");
}
}
}
}
};
[self.mapView addGestureRecognizer:tapInterceptor];
WildcardGestureRecognizer
is in the first linked answer. Calling mapView:viewForOverlay:
won't be cheap, adding a local cache of those would help.
Just in case it might help some of you...
I couldn't find a way to do that but I added an annotation on my overlays (Anyway, i needed to do that to display some information) and then I could get the touch event on this annotation. I know it is not the best way to do it but in my situation, and maybe yours, it works ;) !