Attributed string click is not sensitive with UITextView

Question

Clickable text is not sensitive when touching, need stay finger for a while to trigger that event. Is there a method to resolve that?

This is the default behaviour of UILabel with a link or any actionable item. — Rajan Balana, Nov 10 '16 at 05:09
You can try using this custom library or component. https://github.com/TTTAttributedLabel/TTTAttributedLabel — Rajan Balana, Nov 10 '16 at 05:11
Do you want a clickable UILabel or a part of string in UILabel that's clickable? — KrishnaCA, Nov 10 '16 at 05:41
Instead of UILabel you can use UIButton. Hopes it will helps you — Gourav Joshi, Nov 10 '16 at 05:44
@BollMose, you said `need stay finger for a while to trigger that event`. Does that mean you are looking for Long Press Recognizer on part of String on UITextView? — KrishnaCA, Nov 10 '16 at 18:15
I need a sensitive style as UIButton. @KrishnaChaitanyaAmjuri — BollMose, Nov 11 '16 at 03:35
Does that mean one click on string triggers a method? or do you need all UIControlEvents that are there for UIButton? — KrishnaCA, Nov 11 '16 at 05:39

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Nov 10 '16 at 09:13

From our discussion in comments, I believe that you asked for a way to make part of String clickable. For this you can use NSAttributeString along with UITextView to resolve your problem.

NSString *myString = @"Sample string - click";
NSMutableAttributedString *myAttributedString = [[NSMutableAttributedString alloc] initWithString:myString];
[myAttributedString addAttribute:NSLinkAttributeName value:[NSURL URLWithString:@"randomString"] range:[initString rangeOfString:@"click"]];

UITextView *myNonEditableTextView = [[UITextView alloc] initWithFrame:CGRectMake(60, 200, [[UIScreen mainScreen] bounds].size.width - 120, 100)];
myNonEditableTextView.delegate = self;
myNonEditableTextView.attributedText = myAttributedString;
myNonEditableTextView.editable = NO;
[self.view addSubview: myNonEditableTextView];

// delegate functions for UITextView

// - For versions >= iOS 10, this delegate function should be used 
- (BOOL)textView:(UITextView *)textView shouldInteractWithURL:(NSURL *)URL inRange:(NSRange)characterRange interaction:(UITextItemInteraction)interaction {
    [self performAction];
    return NO;
}

// - For versions < iOS 10, this delegate function should be used
- (BOOL)textView:(UITextView *)textView shouldInteractWithURL:(NSURL *)URL inRange:(NSRange)characterRange {
    [self performAction];
    return NO;
}

Hope this helps :) and let me know if you need a swift version.

Thank you for your answer, but I am sorry I change the title because I use UITextView not UILabel(UILabel cannot clickable automatically). — BollMose, Nov 10 '16 at 13:35
That's great. My answer is for UITextView. Do you want a swift version for this? — KrishnaCA, Nov 10 '16 at 14:37

Attributed string click is not sensitive with UITextView

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