UITextView disabling text selection

ios objective-c iphone uitextview

dizy · Oct 28, 2009 · Viewed 46.5k times · Source

I'm having a hard time getting the UITextView to disable the selecting of the text.

I've tried:

canCancelContentTouches = YES;

I've tried subclassing and overwriting:

- (BOOL)canPerformAction:(SEL)action withSender:(id)sender

(But that gets called only After the selection)

- (BOOL)touchesShouldCancelInContentView:(UIView *)view;

(I don't see that getting fired at all)

- (BOOL)touchesShouldBegin:(NSSet *)touches
                 withEvent:(UIEvent *)event
             inContentView:(UIView *)view;

(I don't see that getting fired either)

What am I missing?

Answer

Issue How disable Copy, Cut, Select, Select All in UITextView has a workable solution to this that I've just implemented and verified:

Subclass UITextView and overwrite canBecomeFirstResponder:

- (BOOL)canBecomeFirstResponder {
    return NO;
}

Note that this disables links and other tappable text content.