Make UIMenuController Unselectable

Asked Aug 20 '12 at 16:36

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I'm working on an iPhone app, and I want to use a tooltip. I've seen some questions about tooltips for iOS in the past (like this one) where the solution is to use something from cocoa controls, but I'm trying to avoid code I didn't write or don't understand.

Apple does precisely what I want to do in their Music app with a long press:

Daft Punk seemed less likely to get me guff on SO

This looks pretty clearly like a UIMenuController to me. Setting custom text of a UIMenuController has already been answered. How does one stop the pop-up from being selectable? I'm thinking Apple is just intercepting the touch event and dismissing it. That said, I don't know how they're doing that.

Currently, I'm leaving the menu item selectable with an action that is a blank method like so:

UIMenuItem *moreInfo = [[UIMenuItem alloc] initWithTitle:text
                                                  action:@selector(doNothing)];

Does anyone have any ideas on how to either:

intercept the touch event to prevent selection
accomplish this goal through a completely different means

Thanks

edited May 23 '17 at 12:29

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asked Aug 20 '12 at 16:36

Tin Can

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Have you tried setting the action to nil? – Ryan Poolos Aug 20 '12 at 16:38
@RyanPoolos nope I'll try that now – Tin Can Aug 20 '12 at 16:39
@RyanPoolos you can still select the menuItem, and if you do it throws an 'NSInvalidArgumentException' :( – Tin Can Aug 20 '12 at 16:50
can you just do `setUserInteractionEnabled = NO`? – danqing Aug 20 '12 at 16:50
@TinCan Just a thought. Sorry it didn't work. – Ryan Poolos Aug 20 '12 at 16:54
@iBlue nope - unrecognized selector - even tried performSelector to get around the compile error. no luck – Tin Can Aug 20 '12 at 16:57
@RyanPoolos no worries, thanks for the suggestion! I'm glad to be trying new ideas – Tin Can Aug 20 '12 at 16:58

Make UIMenuController Unselectable

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