# Intercept a touch event on iOSTable

**URL:** <https://forum.xojo.com/t/intercept-a-touch-event-on-iostable/25482>\
**Category:** iOS\
**Created:** [July 14, 2015, 7:21am UTC](https://forum.xojo.com/t/intercept-a-touch-event-on-iostable/25482 "2015-07-14T07:21:48Z")\
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**Author:** ![Tom\_Iwaniec](https://forum.xojo.com/user_avatar/forum.xojo.com/tom_iwaniec/32/345_2.png) [@Tom\_Iwaniec](https://forum.xojo.com/u/Tom_Iwaniec)\
**Post date:** [July 14, 2015, 7:21am UTC](https://forum.xojo.com/t/intercept-a-touch-event-on-iostable/25482/1 "2015-07-14T07:21:48Z")

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Ideally I would just put a button within a custom iOSTableCellData to do this more natively, but since that doesn’t seem possible, is there any way (even with declares) to get a touch event from a table with coordinates so I can see if a certain section of the row was tapped?

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**Author:** ![Ulrich\_Bogun](https://forum.xojo.com/user_avatar/forum.xojo.com/ulrich_bogun/32/1864_2.png) [@Ulrich\_Bogun](https://forum.xojo.com/u/Ulrich_Bogun)\
**Post date:** [July 17, 2015, 1:13pm UTC](https://forum.xojo.com/t/intercept-a-touch-event-on-iostable/25482/2 "2015-07-17T13:13:17Z")

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In theory yes. Every view in iOS has a “UserInteractionEnabled” property that determines if normal touch events are triggered too. Of course your custom iOSTableCellData or your custom Table must support these events.

I believe I read somewhere here over a workaround putting an iOSCanvas behind the table and reading its Touch event properties.

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**Author:** ![system](https://forum.xojo.com/uploads/default/original/1X/455b4dcc0e61630e9f81940004ddffa49c432a46.png) [@system](https://forum.xojo.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [October 29, 2020, 5:50pm UTC](https://forum.xojo.com/t/intercept-a-touch-event-on-iostable/25482/3 "2020-10-29T17:50:46Z")

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