if you just want to capture the touch event, you can do something like this (in Obj-C, but same idea applies to MT)
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3169798/handling-touch-event-in-uilabel-and-hooking-it-up-to-an-ibaction On Wed, Jun 13, 2012 at 11:29 AM, Chris_M <[email protected]> wrote: > > I hope this is a simple question -- I looked but didn't find a MonoTouch > oriented answer, although surely this has come up before. > > Anyway, I'm displaying text data from a database in a UIViewController (I > have reasons for not using a UITableView to display the data). I'm using > UILabels and it's all going swimmingly and looks great, but I have a few > fields that are URLs. My stakeholders, quite reasonably, would like for the > user to be able to tap on those URLs and have the page open in a webview. > > So my question is: How can I make a UILabel function as a button? Or is > there a way I can dynamically create a UIButton programmatically from a > text > field without using an image? (I've built this view entirely > programmatically, so I'm looking for answers that avoid using > Xcode/Interface Builder.) > > > --Chris > > -- > View this message in context: > http://monotouch.2284126.n4.nabble.com/How-to-use-a-UILabel-as-a-button-tp4655352.html > Sent from the MonoTouch mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > _______________________________________________ > MonoTouch mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/monotouch >
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