tap gesture recognizer - which object was tapped?

Question

I'm new to gesture recognizers so maybe this question sounds silly: I'm assigning tap gesture recognizers to a bunch of UIViews. In the method is it possible to find out which of them was tapped somehow or do I need to find it out using the point that was tapped on screen?

for (NSUInteger i=0; i<42; i++) {
        float xMultiplier=(i)%6;
        float yMultiplier= (i)/6;
        float xPos=xMultiplier*imageWidth;
        float yPos=1+UA_TOP_WHITE+UA_TOP_BAR_HEIGHT+yMultiplier*imageHeight;
        UIView *greyRect=[[UIView alloc]initWithFrame:CGRectMake(xPos, yPos, imageWidth, imageHeight)];
        [greyRect setBackgroundColor:UA_NAV_CTRL_COLOR];

        greyRect.layer.borderColor=[UA_NAV_BAR_COLOR CGColor];
        greyRect.layer.borderWidth=1.0f;
        greyRect.userInteractionEnabled=YES;
        [greyGridArray addObject:greyRect];
        [self.view addSubview:greyRect];
        NSLog(@"greyGrid: %i: %@", i, greyRect);

        //make them touchable
        UITapGestureRecognizer *letterTapRecognizer = [[UITapGestureRecognizer alloc] initWithTarget:self action:@selector(highlightLetter)];
        letterTapRecognizer.numberOfTapsRequired = 1;
        [greyRect addGestureRecognizer:letterTapRecognizer];
    }

Answer 1

If you are adding different UIGestureRecognizer on different UIViews and want to distinguish in the action method then you can check the property view in the sender parameter which will give you the sender view.

Answer 2

Its been a year asking this question but still for someone.

While declaring the UITapGestureRecognizer on a particular view assign the tag as

UITapGestureRecognizer *tapRecognizer = [[UITapGestureRecognizer alloc] initWithTarget:self action:@selector(gestureHandlerMethod:)];
[yourGestureEnableView addGestureRecognizer:tapRecognizer];
yourGestureEnableView.tag=2;

and in your handler do like this

-(void)gestureHandlerMethod:(UITapGestureRecognizer*)sender {
    if(sender.view.tag == 2) {
        // do something here
    }
}

Answer 3

func tabGesture_Call
{
     let tapRec = UITapGestureRecognizer(target: self, action: "handleTap:")
     tapRec.delegate = self
     self.view.addGestureRecognizer(tapRec)
     //where we want to gesture like: view, label etc
}

func handleTap(sender: UITapGestureRecognizer) 
{
     NSLog("Touch..");
     //handling code
}

Answer 4

Define your target selector(highlightLetter:) with argument as

UITapGestureRecognizer *letterTapRecognizer = [[UITapGestureRecognizer alloc] initWithTarget:self action:@selector(highlightLetter:)];

Then you can get view by

- (void)highlightLetter:(UITapGestureRecognizer*)sender {
     UIView *view = sender.view; 
     NSLog(@"%d", view.tag);//By tag, you can find out where you had tapped. 
}

Answer 5

You can also use "shouldReceiveTouch" method of UIGestureRecognizer

- (BOOL)gestureRecognizer:(UIGestureRecognizer *)gestureRecognizer shouldReceiveTouch:     (UITouch *)touch {
     UIView *view = touch.view; 
     NSLog(@"%d", view.tag); 
}    

Dont forget to set delegate of your gesture recognizer.