Show iPhone Cut Copy Paste Menu on Uilabel

Display cut / copy / paste menu for UITextView / UITextField created programmatically

Try this example:

@objc func longPressEventHandler(sender: UILongPressGestureRecognizer) {
    guard sender.state == .began,
        let senderView = sender.view,
        let superView = sender.view?.superview
        else { return }

    // Make responsiveView the window's first responder
    senderView.becomeFirstResponder()

    // Set up the shared UIMenuController
    let cutMenuItem = UIMenuItem(title: "Cut", action: #selector(cutTapped))
    let copyMenuItem = UIMenuItem(title: "Copy", action: #selector(copyTapped))
    UIMenuController.shared.menuItems = [cutMenuItem, copyMenuItem]

    // Tell the menu controller the first responder's frame and its super view
    UIMenuController.shared.setTargetRect(senderView.frame, in: superView)

    // Animate the menu onto view
    UIMenuController.shared.setMenuVisible(true, animated: true)
}

Allow user to select text from UILabel to copy

It is not possible with UILabel.

You should use UITextView for that. Just disable editing using textFieldShouldBeginEditing delegate method.

Can I implement select and copy on UILabel when it has a long press just as UITextField (UITextView、UIWebView), and how?

You're gonna have to implement it yourself. There isn't anything too special about any of the system text views, just read the docs for UIPasteboard, specifically around -[UIPasteboard setString:]. The rest just comes down to how you want to implement the UI. For that I'd recommend looking into subclassing UILabel just to keep everything tidy; UIMenuController for showing the callout view; implementing -canBecomeFirstResponder, -canPerformAction:forSender:, and -copy: to customize the callout actions; and UILongPressGestureRecognizer for triggering everything.

iOS create copy paste like popover (UIMenuController) in UITableView

If it helps anyone, the keyword to look for is "UIMenuController"

I finally managed to solve this by implementing a custom UITableViewCell

override func setSelected(_ selected: Bool, animated: Bool) {

        super.setSelected(selected, animated: animated)
        let showPasswordItem = UIMenuItem(title: "Show Password", action: #selector(showPass(_:)))
        let copyUserNameItem = UIMenuItem(title: "Copy Username", action: #selector(copyUsername(_:)))
        let copyPasswordItem = UIMenuItem(title: "Copy Password", action: #selector(copyPass(_:)))
        self.isPasswordShowing = !self.password.isSecureTextEntry
        UIMenuController.shared.menuItems?.removeAll()
        UIMenuController.shared.menuItems = [copyPasswordItem,copyUserNameItem,showPasswordItem,hidePasswordItem]
        UIMenuController.shared.update()

        if selected {
            self.becomeFirstResponder()
            let menu = UIMenuController.shared
            menu.setTargetRect(self.contentView.frame, in: self.contentView.superview!)
            menu.setMenuVisible(true, animated: true)
        }
    }

override func canPerformAction(_ action: Selector, withSender sender: Any?) -> Bool {

     return  action == #selector(showPass(_:)) || action == #selector(copyUsername(_:)) || action == #selector(copyPass(_:))

}

override var canBecomeFirstResponder : Bool {
    return true
}

func showPass(_ send:AnyObject){
    self.password.isSecureTextEntry = false
    self.isPasswordShowing = true
}
func copyUsername(_ send:AnyObject){
    UIPasteboard.general.string = self.username.text
}
func copyPass(_ send:AnyObject){
    UIPasteboard.general.string = self.password.text
}
func hidePass(_ send:AnyObject){
    self.password.isSecureTextEntry = true
    self.isPasswordShowing = false
}

iphone copy/paste menu not shown in UITableViewCell

Somehow the copy/paste menu starts showing up when I tap the textfield or textview. Not clear on what I have done that made the difference. But I can tell you what I did for your reference. I tried to married NIB file, Custome UIViewController, UITableViewCell into one. I had the textfield and textview embeded in a UIViewController. The UIViewController userinterface is loaded from a NIB file. I then have the UIViewController view added as a subview into the tableViewCell. You can do some googling on this. There are many suggestions.

I do agree with some people who advice not to load NIB into an UITableViewCell. In the end, I took the advice and coded the user interface entirely without the NIB file. I declared a subclass of UITableViewCell then had thd user interface constructed within the initWithStyle. This way the custom tableViewCell was readily useful in the tableView without the headache of figuring out how to load the NIB file and how to make the UIViewController reuseable as a tableViewCell.

Since the code was a lot cleaner, I probably accidentally removed the bad code that had broke the copy/paste mechanism.

Copying a text from UILabel in iPhone

This github project is compiled fine and I have tested it it's working

UILabel copy using menu

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