Dimillian
Feature request: make text of post selectable
Please make the text of a post selectable so it can be copied. I know, that I can copy the whole text. But often I want to look up a single word and it’s much easier if I can just select and copy that word.
This is sooooooo stupid because of SwiftUI. Believe me, I want to do it. But this is just impossible because of SwiftUI... I'll dig into a "hacky" solution at some point.
Okay, I see. It‘s not super important for me, just sometimes a bit annoying. More important would be #245 😉.
Have you tried View.textSelection(.enabled)? Is there something causing that to be ineffective?
Two things:
- It conflict with context menu.
- It not really text selection in SwiftUI, it just allow a basic copy / share menu on the whole text sadly.
Ah yeah, I see that now. The iOS version just gives each Text instance a popup menu, which is disappointing. It works as expected on macOS though—but that's only if you build a full Mac app, rather than going through Apple Silicon or Catalyst. It's a lot easier to make it work on the Mac because of how text editing is implemented there (AppKit uses a shared 'field editor' view/window hovering above the NSTextView, which SwiftUI can provide pretty easily; in UIKit more of it is implemented by UILabel and friends, which SwiftUI isn't usually using).
I'm glade the underlying of SwiftUI are slowly moving away from UIKIt but some components are so lacking for now. Text have a lot of shortcomings, and wiring up a UILabel / UITextView for the timeline / status row would be a pain as the layout have to be done manually. Really stuck on this one for now :(
About proper macOS app: I do want to get there at some point. If you enable Catalyst for this app it's already a lot better than just the iOS app on Apple Silicon.
Yeah, I've been playing around with that. I've got a bunch of the packages building directly for macOS, but someone keeps going & putting in upstream changes all the time which makes it difficult to keep up 😜
This is actually a very nicely architected application, I've been very impressed by it. There are a few things I think could make for good optimizations, and I'm going to try those out & hopefully provide a PR to that effect. If they work as well as I hope, it'd actually make a good case study for SwiftUI architecture and optimization techniques & best practices.
@Dimillian Maybe you can show a text popup in longpress on iOS, from which you can select text?
Just as an idea...
Text select is worth fighting for, if a solution can be found. Some users intentionally type in URLs without the scheme prepended, to defeat single-click propagations, a very Fediverse-minded attitude. But this relies on everyone being able to lift the URL out and paste into browser. My workaround now is to screenshot the post, save the picture into a note, view that and use iOS select-text-in-image to lift out the text and paste to browser. Nifty but gets old fast.
@blueturtleai What do you mean with "fixed in version 1.9.x"?
There is a Menu-Point in the Menu that appears, if i click the three dots of a post, where i can open the text in a new area, where i can select text. That seems IMHO very unhandy and not very intuitiv.
If this menu-point at least would appear, if you longpress a post, that would be much more useful IMHO.
I don't think, this is closed.
For me the issue is closed, as I can select text now. You are right, that it's not very handy to reach this functionality. I'd suggest, that you open a new change issue where you can make a suggestion for better usability.