iphone - Why does UINavigationBar steal touch events?

Question

I have a custom UIButton with UILabel added as subview. Button perform given selector only when I touch it about 15points lower of top bound. And when I tap above that area nothing happens.

I found out that it hasn't caused by wrong creation of button and label, because after I shift the button lower at about 15 px it works correctly.

UPDATE I forgot to say that button located under the UINavigationBar and 1/3 of upper part of the button don't get touch events.

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View with 4 buttons is located under the NavigationBar. And when touch the "Basketball" in top, BackButton get touch event, and when touch "Piano" in top, then rightBarButton (if exists) get touch. If not exists, nothing happened.

I didn't find this documented feature in App docs.

Also I found this topic related to my problem, but there is no answer too.

Answer 1

I noticed that if you set userInteractionEnabled to OFF, the NavigationBar doesn't "steal" the touches anymore.

So you have to subclass your UINavigationBar and in your CustomNavigationBar do this:

-(UIView *)hitTest:(CGPoint)point withEvent:(UIEvent *)event {

    if ([self pointInside:point withEvent:event]) {
        self.userInteractionEnabled = YES;
    } else {
        self.userInteractionEnabled = NO;
    }

    return [super hitTest:point withEvent:event];
}

Info about how to subclass UINavigationBar you can find here.