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Noaman Akram
Noaman Akram

Reputation: 3830

how to disable only cut option on textview android

I applied this code for Textview Selection

android:textIsSelectable="true"

its working Great for selecting and copying Text. but there is a problem I don't want cut and paste option on texview in other words i want to make my textview only readonly so that it only give permission of copy not cut or edit it.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 517

Answers (1)

Ben P.
Ben P.

Reputation: 54204

This is speculation, but it is somewhat informed speculation.

TextView defines two methods that are potentially useful here: onCreateContextMenu(ContextMenu menu) and onTextContextMenuItem(int id).

You could create a subclass of TextView and override onCreateContextMenu() to remove the cut option:

@Override
protected void onCreateContextMenu(ContextMenu menu) {
    super.onCreateContextMenu();
    menu.removeItem(android.R.id.cut);
}

Or you could create a subclass of TextView and override onTextContextMenuItem() to ignore the cut option:

@Override
public boolean onTextContextMenuItem(int id) {
    if (id == android.R.id.cut) {
        return true;
    }

    return super.onTextContextMenuItem(id);
}

Upvotes: 4

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