Thanks Fritz.

This is a great suggestion.



On Jun 4, 2011, at 10:22 AM, Fritz Anderson wrote:

> On 4 Jun 2011, at 8:32 AM, Philip Vallone wrote:
> 
>> I am taking a shot at creating a Twitter App. I was wondering if its 
>> possible to Subclass UItextview to detect hashes and respond to them. For 
>> example:
>> 
>> "This is a tweet #iamtrending"
>> 
>> I've seen this done in other Apps, but not sure where to start.
> 
> UITextView does not render multiple styles, nor offer link-like behavior. To 
> subclass, you'd have to rip out most of the implementation. If you want those 
> things, use UIWebView, which is what the other apps (at least the ones 
> written by sane people) are doing. Convert the hash-tags to <a> content, with 
> a CSS class for special rendering, and your own URL scheme for capturing your 
> special action for touches.
> 
>       — F
> 

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