I came up with a solution that's working well, but will require my review each time the iOS SDK is updated to a new version: remove any array elements from AGSMapView.gestureRecognizers that handle the user interaction I want to restrict. At the current release, there are seven gestureRecognizers, and the three I keep are the UILongPressGestureRecognizer (I have enabled the magnifier) and the two UITapGestureRecognizers. This lets the map support identify, editing, and the magnifier without letting the users accidentally pan the map out of the navigation, auto-center, or compass modes. I save the others in a module level array in my view controller, adding them back to the AGSMapView's gestureRecognizers when the user picks a "non-locked" map mode from the UI picker I made.
The ones I set aside are UIPanGestureRecognizer, AGSMultiTapGestureRecognizer, UIPinchGestureRecognizer, and UIRotationGestureRecognizer. This routine below is what I call to "lock" the current map mode, and I have another written in the reverse logic to "unlock" the map mode.
- (void) removePanGesturesFromMap {
NSMutableArray * mutableGestureRecognizers = [[NSMutableArray alloc] initWithArray:self.mapView.gestureRecognizers];
NSMutableArray *recognizersToRemove = [[NSMutableArray alloc] init];
for (UIGestureRecognizer * gestureRecognizer in self.mapView.gestureRecognizers) {
if (![gestureRecognizer isKindOfClass:[UILongPressGestureRecognizer class]]
&& ![gestureRecognizer isKindOfClass:[UITapGestureRecognizer class]] ) {
[recognizersToRemove addObject:gestureRecognizer];
}
}
if (recognizersToRemove.count > 0) {
[mutableGestureRecognizers removeObjectsInArray:(NSArray*) recognizersToRemove];
self.preservedMapPanGestureHandlers = recognizersToRemove;
self.mapView.gestureRecognizers = (NSArray*)mutableGestureRecognizers;
}
}
