Dear Sarwar, Thanks for your reply.
The problem I have is I don't know when the text is selected and copied into the clipboard after firing the KeyEvent. Thanks. On Aug 12, 4:12 pm, Sarwar Erfan <erfanonl...@gmail.com> wrote: > Use the ClipboardManager to get/set/manipulate the content in the > clipboard.http://developer.android.com/reference/android/text/ClipboardManager.... > > Regards > Sarwar Erfan > > On Aug 12, 12:13 pm, Ryan Tan <ryantan...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > Hi, I am using a WebView to display some text. I want to allow the > > users to be able to select a word (or even a character) and take some > > action on it (for example, look up the dictionary). > > > So far, I have only found the following code that can enable text > > selection in a WebView: > > > KeyEvent shiftPressEvent = new > > KeyEvent(0,0,KeyEvent.ACTION_DOWN,KeyEvent.KEYCODE_SHIFT_LEFT,0,0); > > shiftPressEvent.dispatch(myWebView); > > > The above code will trigger the text selection mode in a WebView and > > copy the selected text automatically into the clipboard. However, I > > have no idea how I can act on the selected text when it is copied into > > the clipboard. Any ideas on how I can detect that some text is copied > > into the clipboard and act on it (without user interaction)? > > > If not, are there any other ways that I can allow users to select a > > character/word in the WebView and perform some operation on it? > > > Thank you for your ideas.- Hide quoted text - > > - Show quoted text - -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
