didSelectRowAtIndexPath: only being invoked after ~3 second hold on cell

Question

I am loading my cells from a nib, which are subclasses of UITableViewCell.

Each of these cells are setup with userInteraction set to YES (in the nib file).

When tapping on a cell, the selection of the cell isn't shown (in this case grey) unless the tap is held for a brief moment.

Even when the cell selection style is shown, lifting the finger off the cell still doesn't fire didSelectRowAtIndexPath:.

As mentioned the only way to fire it is to hold down on the cell for about 3 seconds.

Does anyone have any idea why this might be happening? All of the delegates are set up correctly, I also use the dequeuing method of loading cells.

Thanks for any advice and pointers!

EDIT 2

Apologies, misunderstood the deselect methods. Here they are working:

2012-12-28 04:20:28.120 myApp[2022:907] willSelectRowAtIndexPath: <NSIndexPath 0x1cda0400> 2 indexes [0, 0]
2012-12-28 04:20:28.130 myApp[2022:907] didSelectRowAtIndexPath: <NSIndexPath 0x1cda0400> 2 indexes [0, 0]

2012-12-28 04:20:32.166 myApp[2022:907] willSelectRowAtIndexPath: <NSIndexPath 0x1d936630> 2 indexes [1, 0]
2012-12-28 04:20:32.168 myApp[2022:907] willDeselectRowAtIndexPath: <NSIndexPath 0x1cd24770> 2 indexes [0, 0]
2012-12-28 04:20:32.171 myApp[2022:907] didDeselectRowAtIndexPath: <NSIndexPath 0x1cd24770> 2 indexes [0, 0]
2012-12-28 04:20:32.178 myApp[2022:907] didSelectRowAtIndexPath: <NSIndexPath 0x1d936630> 2 indexes [1, 0]

tableView:cellForRowAtIndexPath::

if (indexPath.section == 0) {
    CustomCell *cell = (CustomCell *)[tableView dequeueReusableCellWithIdentifier:@"CellID"];

    if (!cell) {
        NSArray *nib = [[NSBundle mainBundle] loadNibNamed:@"CustomCell" owner:self options:nil];
        cell = (CustomCell *)[nib objectAtIndex:0];
    }

    NSArray *data = [[self.indexedData objectForKey:kIndexedDataKey] objectAtIndex:indexPath.row];
    CustomObject *dataObject = [data objectAtIndex:0];

    [cell setDataObject:dataObject];

    return cell;
}

Custom cell properties:

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All of the subviews (of the cell) have the same properties:

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Can you NSLog `tableView:willSelectRowAtIndexPath:`, `tableView:didSelectRowAtIndexPath:`, `tableView:willDeselectRowAtIndexPath:`, and `tableView:didDeselectRowAtIndexPath:`, and tell us what the time difference is between each? — John Sauer, Dec 28 '12 at 03:51
Okay, how about the time difference between `willSelect` and `didSelect`? — John Sauer, Dec 28 '12 at 03:55
In each log, the index path of the affected cell is logged too — Adam Carter, Dec 28 '12 at 04:41
Theres no code I could really post which would help is there? — Adam Carter, Dec 28 '12 at 06:15
How about what you have in tableView:cellForRowAtIndexPath:, I think that would be helpful. Also, information about your table view cell. — rdelmar, Dec 28 '12 at 06:30
My guess based on symptoms would be that you are using a gesture recognizer, either attached to the cell or the tableview, that needs to fail before it will pass on touches to the tableview/cell. — NJones, Dec 28 '12 at 20:37
Your exactly right! I fell like an idiot, at the beginning of development i added a tap recognizer on the `UITableView` before I added cells to test some functionality. Thank you so much! — Adam Carter, Dec 28 '12 at 21:05
@AdamCarter. Don't worry, we all have our "fail" moments. Mine was yesterday, now it's your turn. ;-) — Josiah, Dec 28 '12 at 21:08
@AceLegend you're right, just hope it doesnt happen again too soon!! — Adam Carter, Dec 28 '12 at 21:13

score 3 · Answer 1 · answered Dec 28 '12 at 21:06

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As stupid as I feel, as @NJones said, I had a UITapGestureRecognizer attached to the UITableView. When I remove this, it works fine.

answered Dec 28 '12 at 21:06

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score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Jan 27 '14 at 14:47

This topic is a bit old, but I was faced with the same issue:

For me, the problem was because my UITableView was added to an UIScrollView and more specifically to its contentView. It appears that inside the contentView, I had to stay press 2-3 sec to fire the didSelectRowAtIndexPath method.

I moved my TableView to self.view instead of contentView and it solved the problem!

didSelectRowAtIndexPath: only being invoked after ~3 second hold on cell

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