Re: Detect Tap on Word in UILabel?
Re: Detect Tap on Word in UILabel?
- Subject: Re: Detect Tap on Word in UILabel?
- From: Samuel Ford <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 31 Jan 2010 15:40:05 -0500
I want to be able to display arbitrary text on a view and respond to taps on the words independently.
I guess it probably would be easier to parse the text out into words and just drop down custom buttons into some kind of flow layout.
On Jan 31, 2010, at 2:57 PM, Scott Anguish wrote:
> Why would you want to do this, vs using a button?
>
> How would the user know they should tap on that word?
>
> On Jan 30, 2010, at 6:54 PM, Samuel Ford wrote:
>
>> Is it possible to detect which word was tapped in a UILabel in Cocoa Touch? It seems like it should be a pretty easy thing to do, but I'm stuck.
>>
>> Anybody ever try to do this?
>>
>> I know you can measure a string and get the bounding box that contains it; likewise, looking at the UITextInput protocol it has exactly the right methods (closestPositionToPoint & firstRectForRange), but these are limited 3.2 and don't seem to apply to UILabel.
>
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