Best approach for simple link within UITextView

Question

I am creating a dictionary lookup application. The user selects a word from a UITableView and the app displays the definition. In some cases the word will be similar to another word, so I want to display "See Also:" followed by a list of similar words that when touched, bring up another definition.

In searching here on links within UITextViews, most of the answers involve linking out to the web, which is not really what I need. I simply want to get control when the user touches a word so that I can change the view.

Is UIWebView the only way to do this, or did I miss something obvious in the SDK? Also, I'd prefer to stay within the native SDK and not go the three20 route.

Thanks!

Answer 1

I would use another UITableView to make this work. Your list of similar words will probably be in NSArray format already, so it would be pretty easy to set up another UITableView instead of a UITextView to display the list, and given that you already have this code working for the main UITableView, you already know how to make them clickable!