Problems showing UIMenuController one after another

Question

I\'m using the new customization abilities of the UIMenuController to add things other than \"Copy\" to the menu for cut&paste into a webview.

What I do is getting t

Answer 1

you can get the rect of the previously displayed UIMenuController using menuFrame (readonly property), using that you can calculate the position for another UIMenuController to be shown at the same place.

In the action method where you are about to show the second UIMenuController, get the frame of the previous UIMenuController

CGRect previousRect = [[UIMenuController sharedMenuController] menuFrame];

CGRect newRect = CGRectMake(previousRect.origin.x + previousRect.size.width/2,   previousRect.origin.y + previousRect.size.height, 0, 0);

Roughly you will get the arrow position. Now show the second UIMenuController

UIMenuItem *testMenuItem1 = [[UIMenuItem alloc] initWithTitle:@"test1" action:@selector(test1ItemClicked)];
UIMenuItem *testMenuItem2 = [[UIMenuItem alloc] initWithTitle:@"test2" action:@selector(test2ItemClicked)];


[[UIMenuController sharedMenuController] setMenuItems:@[testMenuItem1,testMenuItem2]];

UIMenuController *menuController = [UIMenuController sharedMenuController];

[menuController setTargetRect:newRect inView:_readerWebView];

[menuController setMenuVisible:YES animated:YES];

since UIMenuController is a singleton, if you want to show the previous menuItems, again you have to set them.