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

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ghayenga

macrumors regular

Original poster

• Oct 28, 2009

• #1

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

Moderator emeritus

• Oct 28, 2009

• #2

ghayenga said:

...on what is obviously a UIWebView

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

 

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ghayenga

macrumors regular

Original poster

• Oct 28, 2009

• #3

dejo said:

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

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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

Moderator emeritus

• Oct 28, 2009

• #4

ghayenga said:

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.

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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.