Embedding a UIScrollView within a UIScrollView

[davide.bettio]

I have a UIScrollView set up with pagingEnabled turned on to let me horizontally swipe a page at a time. However, I now need each "page" (which is basically a vertically large UIView) to scroll vertically. So, the UIView for each "page" lives inside another UIScrollView to allow for vertical scrolling within the page and that is placed in the parent UIScrollView to allow horizontal swiping between the pages

The problem is this isn't working out as nicely as I hoped. The horizontal swipes work, but to scroll vertically, I have to tap and hold for a second for it to work at all - and sometimes, no matter what I do I can't scroll vertically on a page. I have turned off delayContentTouches for the parent UIScrollView but that doesn't seem to help.

I've seen a couple apps do this type of thing I'm trying to do - specifically AIM does it with chats (you can scroll vertically on the current chat and swipe horizontally between them) and VerseWise also does this. Any ideas or some code?

[Handy]

Originally Posted by davide.bettio

The problem is this isn't working out as nicely as I hoped. The horizontal swipes work, but to scroll vertically, I have to tap and hold for a second for it to work at all - and sometimes, no matter what I do I can't scroll vertically on a page. I have turned off delayContentTouches for the parent UIScrollView but that doesn't seem to help.

This is a real problem. I failed to make the nested scroll views (I tried to embed table in a scroll view) to work properly. "Inner" view got the "filtered" touches with some delay, properties tuning did not help.

In fact, I have never seen an iPhone application where UITableView (that is UIScrollView decendant) is in a "horisontal" scroll view. I do not say it is impossible, but probably it will be quite tricky to implement things like this.

Alas, guy, but you are not alone.

[davide.bettio]

look at AIM app
try to open 2-3 chat and scroll horizontally...

[iRegistered]

There is a replacement class for UIScrollView called zoomScrollView, however it breaks in OS 3.0.

OS 3.0 is supposed to make nesting ScrollViews easier to manage, however I am still having problems.

I nested them, however the behavior is a bit erratic. Has anyone gotten this to work like the Photo app?

[teras]

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