Problems adding more than one UIMenuItem to UIMenuController

Question

Hello,

I'm using the new customization abilities of the UIMenuController to add things other than "Copy" to the menu for cut&paste into a webview.

What I do is getting the reference to the shared UIMenuController, setting my NSArray of UIMenuItems into the menuItems, and everything work fine as long as I add a single item. For instance I see [COPY|FOOBAR].

Instead if I try adding more than a single item, what happen is that I see [COPY|MORE], if I press into MORE than finally the other items will show up.

Is possible to show directly [COPY|FOO|BAR|THREE|FOUR] instead? I saw a few applications that are able to do this, notably iBooks.

Any help very appreaciated, thank you.

Cheers, sissensio

Answer 1

Hi, we have the same problem actually when i tried to develop an application in iPad. But what i did is i disabled the popup menu items in

• (BOOL)canPerformAction:(SEL)action withSender:(id)sender

Using

if ( [UIMenuController sharedMenuController] ) { [UIMenuController sharedMenuController].menuVisible = NO; } return NO;

Then i used a UIPopoverController.

Regards, ZaldzBugz

Answer 2

Ran into the same problem and what I did was override the webview with a subclass (yep I know you shouldn't) and return NO for canPerformAction: for the copy: selector. Then I added my own Copy item to the ShareMenuController that calls the original method from UIWebview. That way as many items as you want can be added and are initially visible.