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iOS Components and Frameworks: Understanding the Advanced Features of the iOS SDK
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iOS Components and Frameworks: Understanding the Advanced Features of the iOS SDK

by Kyle Richter, Joe Keeley
November 2013
Intermediate to advanced
576 pages
19h 3m
English
Addison-Wesley Professional
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Detecting Hits

Hit detection has always been complex to implement and often required for elaborate text-driven apps. iOS 7 added support for per-character hit detection. In order to support this functionality a subclassed UITextView is created, called ICFCustomTextView in the sample project. The UITextView implements a touchesBegan event method.

When a touch begins, the location in the view is captured and it is adjusted down the y axis by ten to line up with the text elements. A method is invoked on the layoutManager that is a property of the text view, characterIndexForPoint: inTextContainer: fractionOfDistanceBetweenInsertionPoints:. This returns the index of the character that was selected.

After the character index has been determined, ...

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