iPhone SDK 3.x – UIWebView issue: copy:selector

Inside the -(BOOL)canPerformAction:(SEL)action withSender:(id)sender method

when holding the mouse pointer in the simulator on a word of a webpage loaded on a uiwebview this method is called properly, but the copy: selector isn’t analyzed and not even called (but the text is normaly copied) , I’ve opened a ticket o Apple Bug Report.

This bug don’t allow to fully disable the contextual menu on uiwebview, and the only solution is to disable all using javascript on the  loaded page.

January 27th, 2010 in iPhone And iPod Programming | tags: ,

Comments (3)

daveOctober 3rd, 2010 at 4:40 pm

Did you ever get a response on this? I am running into the same issue with iOS 3.2 on the iPad with a UIWebView. Can you share the javascript code you used to get around this?

graci, arigato.

Andrea LeganzaOctober 3rd, 2010 at 4:56 pm

Sorry no FIX from Apple yet, the answer was fast but they only said:

“This bug has been closed as Duplicate. We are aware of and tracking this issue under the Bug ID listed above in the bug State (Duplicate/XXXX).”

So they know but probably it is in a low priority queue.

sivaJanuary 23rd, 2012 at 2:04 pm

Im still facing this issue for both copy and define . Did we get any FIX for this defect from apple??

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