Gesture Recognizer Not Called

Question

I have set up a gesture recognizer for dismissing the keyboard when the user taps outside the textfield. DismissKeyboard function does not get called.

Have I set up the observer wrong or is this a different issue? Also, this is a tableview that is being tapped.

Code Excerpt

class CommentsViewController: UIViewController, UITableViewDelegate, UITableViewDataSource {
    override func viewDidAppear(animated: Bool) {
        super.viewDidAppear(animated)
        NSNotificationCenter.defaultCenter().addObserver(self,
            selector: Selector("keyboardWillShow:"),
            name: UIKeyboardWillShowNotification,
            object: nil)
        NSNotificationCenter.defaultCenter().addObserver(self,
            selector: Selector("keyboardWillHide:"),
            name: UIKeyboardWillHideNotification,
            object: nil)
    }

    func keyboardFrameChanged(notification: NSNotification) {
        println("keyboardFrameChanged")
        let userInfo = notification.userInfo
        let key = UIKeyboardFrameEndUserInfoKey
        if let info = userInfo {
            let frameValue = info[key] as! NSValue
            let _frame = frameValue.CGRectValue()
        }
    }

    func keyboardWillShow(notification: NSNotification) {
        if keyboardDismissTapGesture == nil
        {
            println("dismiss")
            keyboardDismissTapGesture = UITapGestureRecognizer(target: self, action: Selector("dismissKeyboard:"))
            self.view.addGestureRecognizer(keyboardDismissTapGesture!)
        }
    }

    func keyboardWillHide(notification: NSNotification) {
        if keyboardDismissTapGesture != nil
        {
            println("test2")
            self.view.removeGestureRecognizer(keyboardDismissTapGesture!)
            keyboardDismissTapGesture = nil
        }
    }

    func dismissKeyboard(sender: AnyObject) {
        println("dismiss keyboard")
        commentTextField.resignFirstResponder()
    }

I set a breakpoint at dismissKeyboard, but it doesn't even get called.

Output

When I tap the textview and the keyboard opens, this is the output

keyboardFrameChanged
keyboardFrameChanged
will show
dismiss

When I tap anything else (trying to dismiss the keyboard), no further outputs.

Answer 1

Set the gesture recognizer delegate to yourself and add the UIGestureRecognizerDelegate protocol.

func keyboardWillShow(notification: NSNotification) {
    if keyboardDismissTapGesture == nil
    {
        println("dismiss")
        keyboardDismissTapGesture = UITapGestureRecognizer(target: view, action: "dismissKeyboard:")
        keyboardDismissTapGesture.delegate = self
        self.view.addGestureRecognizer(keyboardDismissTapGesture!)
    }
}

Then add:

func gestureRecognizer(gestureRecognizer: UIGestureRecognizer, shouldRecognizeSimultaneouslyWithGestureRecognizer otherGestureRecognizer: UIGestureRecognizer) -> Bool { 
    return true 
}

My guess is, the gesture of your table view is interfering with the new UITapGesture . Try this solution or else you should fail the gesture of your table view when your new UITapGesture is detected.

To fail the UITapGestureRecognizer of the table view I use this code:

if let recognizers = yourTableView.gestureRecognizers, let index = find(recognizers.map { $0 is UITapGestureRecognizer }, true) {
    (recognizers[index] as! UIPanGestureRecognizer).requireGestureRecognizerToFail(keyboardDismissTapGesture)
}

Maybe not the most elegant way of doing it, but it works for me when I want to fail the UIPanGestureRecognizer . I haven't tested it with the UITapGestureRecognizer .

EDIT:

if let recognizers = yourTableView.gestureRecognizers, let index = find(recognizers.map { $0 is UIGestureRecognizer }, true) {
    (recognizers[index] as! UIGestureRecognizer).requireGestureRecognizerToFail(keyboardDismissTapGesture!)
}