Making a UILabel subview in UIScrollView to be firstResponder

Question

I have added a label with some text and links to an ScrollView, when you tap on those links (in the label), a delegate method will call, displays a popover and show some related information.

but problem starts from here, I want when you tap on anywhere else except the links, the popover disappear.

if I add a UITapGestureRecognizer to ScrollView, the delegate method for links won't call.

what should I do to label handles the tap on links, and ScrollView Handles the other taps?

I did like that:

UITapGestureRecognizer *tap = [[UITapGestureRecognizer alloc] initWithTarget:self action:@selector(tapped)];
    [self.scrollView addGestureRecognizer:tap];

- (void)tapped
{
    if ([self.storyText.delegate respondsToSelector:@selector(attributedLabel:shouldFollowLink:)])

        [self.storyText.delegate performSelector:@selector(attributedLabel:shouldFollowLink:) withObject:self.storyText];
}

In tapped method Im checking if Im tapping on a link, the delegate should be called, but Delegate wont call. Am I missing someThing?

Answer 1

Solved! Solution: first I create a custom class for my scrollView and subclassed that from UIScrollView. Second I override

-(void)touchesEnded:(NSSet *)touches withEvent:(UIEvent *)event

in my custom ScrollView class. in this method I called a method to dismiss the popover.

but important part is that in viewWillAppear method of the class which popover will appear, I passed self to custom scrollView class. because if I didn't that, the method for dismissing popover won't work (it needs an object of this class).

[self.scrollView initWithStoryViewController:self];

this images show in which scenario I had this problem:

Answer 2

You can use custom UIButtons instead of labels or you can place custom UIButtons with clear background color over the links and give actions to this buttons.