using gestures on a UIWebView?

[Chris230291]

hi. so i have a UIWebView app that loads a site, but i have no toolbars ect. instead i want a one finger swipe (left and right) to go forwards and backwards. so i drag 2 swipe gesture recogniser objects into the interface builder. i then click and drag them to the UIWebView and select an action. i then set the number of fingers and direction. sorted... or so i thought.

when i run the app the gestures dont recognise. my guess (as a complete beginner) is that it doesn't work because the one finger slide gestures are already used in the UIWebView (though they are NOT required, just scrolling up and down). so what can i do to accomplish my goal? do i need to disable the gestures in the webview somehow?

what are my options?

Thanks in advance,
Chris

[brogan20]

reinstall it and see if that fixes it

[8BitAce]

I'm not really familiar to using Xcode (I usually just code by hand) but did you add the code for your action method? i.e. Your

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- (IBAction)... method.

[Chris230291]

arh? i wasn't aware i had to? you see there are preset actions when working with the UIWebView (forward,backward, stop and refresh ect). instead of linking a button to a action, i linked the slide gesture.

someone said that i could try to subclass UIWebview and override this behaviour. but i dont know how to do that. (assuming this is caused by the 1 finger swipe already being part of the UIwWebView)

maybe this screenshot will help understand?



Thanks for your time.

[Chris230291]

i've learnt that this will disable scrolling, but i only want to disable left/right scrolling

 

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[[webView subviews] lastObject] setScrollEnabled:NO];

[Chris230291]

OK i've figured it out and boy do i feel like a spesh! it was just some checkboxes i needed to have a play with.
one thing though, when i build the app and transfer it over my home network to my macbook for syncing with my iphone, it doesn't work right on my device. however, when i choose my device to build and run on in xcode, it runs great!.

why? :S
i think i need to fix this issue so i can upload a copy to cydia.

Thanks
Chris

[8BitAce]

Nice! Glad you figured it out!

As for the other issue, its probably not getting signed correctly or something. Do you have a developer account (as in paid $99)? Otherwise you may need to look into fake codesigning. How exactly does it act when it isn't working?

[Chris230291]

it works now lol. i just transferred it over again a few times. something must have gotten corrupt in the process.
now I've got a fully working app, i think i wanna add fancy stuff like animations before i release 1.0.

is it possible to add the curling page animations to the forward/backward controls in a UIWebView? so with the gestures you flick through like a book.