Nevermind, got it http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6948447/android-3-0-webview-text-selection-javascript
Answered my own question, and sry I can't give t3h c0d3z (NDA), but I have a brief outline based on the solution... Let's hope they think about this for ICS... It's not that difficult a problem to solve IMHO. Peace, Dan On Jul 28, 10:52 am, IcedNet <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello All, > > I am working on a non-trivial epub format book reader project in 3.1+, > implementing it within aWebView. > > I am stymied at thetextselection/highlight phase (luckily ? I have > many more operations to polish up and implement). > > I can , of course highlighttextand use the Clipboard manager in it's > intended role (copy/paste, et al). > The problem is twofold when I attempt to enable persistenttext > highlighting within theWebViewitself: > > 1) the ClipboardManager does not (currently) seem well-suited for this > -- I have implemented the OnPrimaryClipChangedListener to capture the > clipboardtextand process it within myWebView, but, being that I > cannot override the System Clipboard ActionBar menu, I receive thetextas > would any app, only upon clicking "Copy" etc... and the menu, > though nice, is not "ours". I have seen the results of polling the > ClipboardManager.hasPrimaryClip() for it'stextas well so I believe > that path is doom-laden :) > > 2) I have attempted to use the ActionMode pattern, but overriding > onDragEvent() within myWebViewis non-responsive (as in it never > fires) and gives me the dreaded "Miss a drag as we are waiting for > WebCore's response for touch down." -- as I am trying to control page > turning/navigation within theWebView(javascriptdisables ontouch > events) for the obvious reason that it is a book reader, not a > webpage. > > As an aside, I notice that Google's flagship "Books" app, though > pretty, also does not allow highlighting/textselection... with the > splitting of images between pages, we were thinking it might be > aWebViewimplementation as well -- just a slight beg for source > code... only slight, really :) > > If it is not clear from the above, I am wondering how to get control > of the ClipboardManager, or barring that (which I assume I cannot do > as it is a System service), maybe someone can point me in the > direction of a workaround for webcore so cruelly denying Java the > ability to control the world. I am open to taking complete control of > motion events if need be, but that is so demanding for such a > seemingly simple task as this... I mean, really, Amazon does what we > want to do in Kindle for Droid... :) > > Thanks for your time! > > Peace, > Dan -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
