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Re: How to get tapped text from UITextView
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Re: How to get tapped text from UITextView


  • Subject: Re: How to get tapped text from UITextView
  • From: Sasikumar JP <email@hidden>
  • Date: Sat, 1 May 2010 10:49:00 +0530

Alex,
	I can draw the text using NSString's drawing method. But I am not clear how to get the tapped String using touch point or GCRect. I don't any direct method to get the String by passing CGPoint or CGRect.


I was able to successfully implement this feature by creating CATextLayer for each word and put all the layers as a sublayer of UIView's layer object. When user tapped on this View, hitTest method would return the Layer which was tapped.  Using the Layer Object i was able to get the tapped string.

Does this approach cause any performance or memory related issue. since i am creating CATextLayer object for each word.

Thanks
Sasikumar

On 30-Apr-2010, at 8:44 PM, Alex Kac wrote:

> 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.
>
> --
> 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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