[android-developers] Intercept/override context menu on EditText long-press?

[Keith Wiley]

I want to intercept an EditText long-press and do something with it
other than present a contextual menu.  Obviously, I cannot simply
disable the GestureDetector's long press detection because I do in
fact want to use the long press.  By the time onCreateContextMenu() is
called, it seems to be too late to prevent the contextual menu from
occurring.  Not calling super.onCreateContextMenu for example doesn't
prevent it, nor does anything else I have tried...and
onCreateContextMenu() is called before onLongPress(), so the answer to
my question can't be some behavior in onLongPress().  Should I be
doing something in dispatchTouchEvent(), onDown(), or showPress() to
accomplish this goal?  Those seem to be the only methods that are
called before onCreateContextMenu().

Thanks.

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Re: [android-developers] Intercept/override context menu on EditText long-press?

[Mark Murphy]

On Sun, Apr 24, 2011 at 5:54 PM, Keith Wiley kbwi...@gmail.com wrote:
 I want to intercept an EditText long-press and do something with it
 other than present a contextual menu.

Please don't. Users will expect the standard EditText context menu to
appear, so they can do silly things like edit the text. Android
developers get ripped to shreds by users and the media for having zero
UI discipline, breaking existing UI patterns and causing no two apps
to work the same -- your proposal is a case in point.

If your goal is for users to not edit the text, then don't use an EditText.

If your goal is for users to edit the text, leave the context menu
alone, and find some other way to trigger whatever it is that you are
trying to do.

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