TableView Cell with Links

[lexy0202]

Hi,

I'm building a basic twitter reader (only for viewing, no posting) - and I want to add clickable URLs into my TableView... from the apps I've seen so far I've realised there are two ways:

The Official Twitter app way, which is to only detect and highlight links, emails etc. in a drilled down view.

Or the twitterific (and possibly other clients) way which is to detect and highlight in the tableView. - This is what I want to achieve, however I've heard some people say it can lead to laggy scrolling.

Could someone tell me of a thread, sample code, etc of where I can find a tableViewCell subclass that can do this. I don't have a problem with the string detection, just the ability to format it and make it clickable inside the tableView - that will definitely be the challenge here

Thanks in advance,
Alex

[dljeffery]

Originally Posted by lexy0202

Could someone tell me of a thread, sample code, etc of where I can find a tableViewCell subclass that can do this. I don't have a problem with the string detection, just the ability to format it and make it clickable inside the tableView - that will definitely be the challenge here

UITextView will do all this for you, as long as you configure the data detector types as needed. So you could just put a UITextView in your custom cell (as opposed to the more typical UILabel approach).