transparent view or button over a uitextview with touches passed to it

I have a uitextview and for some reasons I would it was not edita开发者_开发知识库ble but that it became editable when the user touches it. I thought to put on it another view or a button in a such way that this view or button intercepts the user touch and passes it to the uitextview.

Is it possible? How could I make a such transparent view or button?

Thanks,

Fran

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ummm, did you mean, you want the UITextView to be not editable, but the view or button should catch the tap? why??

but yep you can,

just create a UIButton with [button backgroundColor:[UIColor clearColor]]; then catch the button tap and in that method call [textview becomeFirstResponder];

but if you are doing this roundabout thing just because for unknown reason, the UITextView is uneditable by tapping, try setting [textView setUserInteractionEnabled:YES];

or maybe some other views frame is covering the textview and is not letting the tap event through to the uitextview. try putting it on top of everything not below.