Re: How to get tapped text from UITextView
Re: How to get tapped text from UITextView
- Subject: Re: How to get tapped text from UITextView
- From: Alex Kac <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 30 Apr 2010 10:14:09 -0500
You are going to have to draw the text yourself using NSString's drawing methods and then use the regular touch events and CGRects to do that. Or use a UIWebView with links to each word that you recognize.
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Alex Kac
On my mobile device so please excuse the brevity.
On Apr 30, 2010, at 12:38 AM, Sasikumar JP <email@hidden> wrote:
> Hi,
> I am working on a iPhone Application. I want to implement the following feature in my app, but i don't know how to implement it.
>
> I want to display the read-only text content in UITextView, where user can tap any word in the text. It should take the user to next screen to display more detail about the tapped word.
>
> I dont know how to get tapped word from the UITextView.
>
> I have set the UITextView as a read-only to avoid the popping key-board and I have subclassed the UITextView to override the canPerformAction: withSender to disable the cut & paste feature.
>
> I have overridden touchesBegan method to get the touch/tap Event. But i am not sure how to get only the tapped word from the complete text.
>
>
> Any help is highly appreciated.
>
>
> Thanks
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