iphone - How to add a gesture recognizer to a UIWebView subclass?

Question

If I add a gesture recognizer to a subclassed UIWebView instance called webView, e.g.:

UILongPressGestureRecognizer *_longPressRecognizer = [[UILongPressGestureRecognizer alloc] initWithTarget:self action:@selector(webViewGestureRecognized:)];
_longPressRecognizer.allowableMovement = 20;
_longPressRecognizer.minimumPressDuration = 1.0f;
[webView addGestureRecognizer:_longPressRecognizer];
[_longPressRecognizer release], _longPressRecognizer = nil; 

The -webViewGestureRecognized: selector is not called when I perform a long press.

I have overridden the delegate method -gestureRecognizer:shouldRecognizeSimultaneouslyWithGestureRecognizer: but the long-press selector is still not called.

- (BOOL) gestureRecognizer:(UIGestureRecognizer *)gestureRecognizer shouldRecognizeSimultaneouslyWithGestureRecognizer:(UIGestureRecognizer *)otherGestureRecognizer {
    return YES;
}

Is there anything I can do to enable my own gesture recognizer on the web view?

Answer 1

as far as I know UIWebView shouldnt be subclassed as mentioned in Apple docs:

http://developer.apple.com/iphone/library/documentation/uikit/reference/UIWebView_Class/Reference/Reference.html