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 <jps...@gmail.com> 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 > Sasikumar_______________________________________________ > > Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) > > Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. > Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com > > Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: > http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/alex%40webis.net > > This email sent to a...@webis.net _______________________________________________ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com