Disabling Magnifying Glass in UITextView in an iPhone App

Question

I want to display text and I want to be able to know where in this text a user touches. Because the text could be long, I wanted to use a UITextView so that wrapping and everything would be taken care of. I want my own event handling for when a touch begins or moves. My problem is that the magnifying glass and select/select all menu are interrupting my touchesMoved events.

How can i disable the magnifying glass, but still have user interaction enabled so that I can detect the touches?

Answer 1

You might try the tips offered here: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1426731/how-disable-copy-cut-select-select-all-in-uitextview