TouchesBegan overriding touchUpInside actions

Question

I've implemented a custom UIButton and in order for me to handle LongPress events (without using Gesture Recognizers) I had to use touchesBegan:, touchesEnded: on my class. Problem is that now the regular button events aren't working. I'm wondering what's causing this and how I could avoid it?

The touch based events are working but the previous actions I had for touchUpInside: are no longer functional.

Thanks

Answer 1

don't use touchesBegan: for longpress, use this gesture recognizer!

UILongPressGestureRecognizer *longPressGesture = [[UILongPressGestureRecognizer alloc]     initWithTarget:self action:@selector(longTap:)];
[view addGestureRecognizer:longPressGesture];
[longPressGesture release];

-(void) longTap:(UILongPressGestureRecognizer *)gestureRecognizer{
    NSLog(@"gestureRecognizer= %@",gestureRecognizer);
    if ([gestureRecognizer state] == UIGestureRecognizerStateBegan) {
        NSLog(@"longTap began");
    } 
}