Show text and record click of single words

[Frog]

Hi everyone,

I've got an array and each item contains a dictionary with at key "Name" a word and at key "Description" a description about that word. These words make up a story and I want that story to be showed so users can read it. When a user clicks a word, I want to show the description associated with that word.

I can't figure out how to do this. I tried to use a UITextView, but because it should not editable I can't use textViewDidChangeSelection in combination with the selectedRange property. I also tried to use NSButtons, but that's just a pain to set up and I also don't believe that's a high performance solution.

What is the best way to solve this problem?

Thanks on forehand!
Frog

[Frog]

Does anybody have an idea?

[lgehrig1]

Originally Posted by Frog

Does anybody have an idea?

I'd probably build HTML and show it in a UIWebView. You've got Javascript capabilities, so you should be able to float your description.

Alternately - track the touch down locations and match them to where your words are. That would be a lot more complex, though.

[Frog]

Using a UIWebView sounds like a "dirty" method to me. I actually prefer to user an other method.

Do you have any idea how you can track location and match them with the words?

I've also looked into Core Text as an alternative, do you have an idea how to do that?