Disable text selection UITextView

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I want to disable text selection on a UITextView. Until now what i've already done is:

- (BOOL)canPerformAction:(SEL)action withSender:(id)sender { [UIMenuController sharedMenuController].menuVisible = NO; if (action == @selector(paste:)) return NO; if (action == @selector(select:)) return NO; if (action == @selector(selectAll:)) return NO; return NO; }

In this away I set UIMenuController to hidden and i put a stop to text copy but the text selection is still visible.

Google results (also StackOverflow) take me to no solution. Has someone already faced the same problem? Any ideas?

Raphaël Pinto · Accepted Answer · 2014-08-20 09:36:03Z

If you want to prevent the text selection but keep links interactions, add the following textview delegate methods

- (void)textViewDidChangeSelection:(UITextView *)textView { [textView setSelectedRange:NSMakeRange(NSNotFound, 0)]; }

This will crash the application if theres any attempt to backspace.

Damien Debin · Accepted Answer · 2011-11-04 17:41:56Z

If you want to disable cut/copy/paste on all UITextView of your application you can use a category with :

@implementation UITextView (DisableCopyPaste) - (BOOL)canBecomeFirstResponder { return NO; } @end

It saves a subclassing... :-)

Otherwise, just subclass UITextViewand put :

- (BOOL)canBecomeFirstResponder { return NO; }

The question is about disabling text selection on a UITextView and this is what this piece of code does...
This will also disable text input though surely? Yeah, just tested. This disables any text input to the text field.

ollo · Accepted Answer · 2013-01-25 16:28:50Z

-1

textView.editable = NO;

or

[textView setEnabled:NO];

im not sure what u meant

edited Jan 25, 2013 at 16:28

ollo

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