iOS How to Create the Highlight/Note Popup Buttons from the iPhone Kindle app

[ghayenga]

Someone already asked the exact question I had over on Stack Overflow:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1611801/

Basically I can't figure out how the new Kindle app is overriding the UIMenuController and putting up their own menu items when someone does a tap and hold on what is obviously a UIWebView

 

[dejo]

...on what is obviously a UIWebView

You so sure about that? Maybe it's not. Maybe they've subclassed UIWebView so that they can override some of its default behavior.

 

[ghayenga]

You so sure about that? Maybe it's not. Maybe they've subclassed UIWebView so that they can override some of its default behavior.

A UIWebView subclass is still a UIWebView, and my point is that you don't get touch events in a UIWebView subclass. And I can't see any way to override that default behavior by subclassing a UIWebView. That's why I'm asking the question about how to do it.

 

[dejo]

A UIWebView subclass is still a UIWebView, and my point is that you don't get touch events in a UIWebView subclass. And I can't see any way to override that default behavior by subclassing a UIWebView. That's why I'm asking the question about how to do it.

One way to do it is to place a transparent UIView over the content view and trap the events from there. Sorry, that's kinda what I was hinting at with the "maybe it's not" remark.