UITextField subview of UIImageView is not responding to touch events

Question

I have a UITextField that responds to touch events when it is added as a subview of self.view. When I add it as a subview of a UIImageView it does not respond to touch events any more. I make it a firstResponder and the field is active and takes keyboard input still. Any ideas what is wrong?

Answer 1

The docs for UIImageView state:

New image view objects are configured to disregard user events by default. If you want to handle events in a custom subclass of UIImageView, you must explicitly change the value of the userInteractionEnabled property to YES after initializing the object.

Try setting imgView.userInteractionEnabled = YES

If this doesn't work, I would try adding the UIImageView and the UITextField in a UIView instead. Anyway, this approach seems cleaner.