Can I implement “select” and “copy” on UILabel when it has a long press just as UITextField (UITextView、UIWebView), and how?

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Please give me a hand~ I wanna know how to make UILabel have a system Clipboard(e.g. copy and select) like UITextField (UITextView、UIWebView) when it has a long press, which makes me can copy the text I want. I have read some demo on Github, however, they always only contain copy function, which makes me can't choose the text I want to copy. At present I wanna implement "select" on UILabel but I don't know how to work out.
Can I use UITextField without editing function? But once I turn off editing function, there is no system Clipboard when it has a long press. Or if there is a simpler method to work out? Thanks!

Posted 17-Feb-15 15:54pm

Elijah_Lam

Updated 24-Dec-16 0:56am

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KarstenK · Answer 1 · 2015-02-17T22:54:00

Solution 1

In the interface builder of XCode you can set the option "Selectable" in the Attribute inspector for an UILabel.

Posted 17-Feb-15 22:54pm

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Elijah_Lam 18-Feb-15 10:20am

No, you didn't get my idea! I mean I wanna select some text of a label, and copy it to the clipboard. e.g. : label.text = @"hey guys!", and I wanna select "guy" or what I want to copy.

Member 12917148 · Answer 2 · 2016-12-24T00:56:00

Solution 3

mybe you should use coretext to calculate the press position to get the rang the user select.

Posted 24-Dec-16 0:56am

Member 12917148