I want to be able to display arbitrary text on a view and respond to taps on the words independently.
I guess it probably would be easier to parse the text out into words and just drop down custom buttons into some kind of flow layout. On Jan 31, 2010, at 2:57 PM, Scott Anguish wrote: > Why would you want to do this, vs using a button? > > How would the user know they should tap on that word? > > On Jan 30, 2010, at 6:54 PM, Samuel Ford wrote: > >> Is it possible to detect which word was tapped in a UILabel in Cocoa Touch? >> It seems like it should be a pretty easy thing to do, but I'm stuck. >> >> Anybody ever try to do this? >> >> I know you can measure a string and get the bounding box that contains it; >> likewise, looking at the UITextInput protocol it has exactly the right >> methods (closestPositionToPoint & firstRectForRange), but these are limited >> 3.2 and don't seem to apply to UILabel. > _______________________________________________ Cocoa-dev mailing list ([email protected]) 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 [email protected]
