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 <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
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