I am using CoreText to draw text to my table view cells as I implemented the fast scrolling technique. Links in my text are a different color and respond to clicks, but I cannot figure out how to get the links to look like they are being clicked i.e. change color when tapped then change back. I have seen this in multiple apps, but not sure how it is done. Can this be done with CoreText or do I need to use something else?
I know this can be done with UILabels but that defeats the purpose of drawing text directly in the cell's content view.
Thanks.
Each time you want to change the color of the text, you need to send a -setNeedsDisplayInRect: to the view in which you are drawing the text. In addition, set a variable corresponding to the text color.
When the view redraws and invokes your drawLayer:inContext:, make sure that kCTForegroundColorAttributeName is set to the correct color (based off of the variable you set) and redraw your text.
You can also use a similar technique but with the methods in UIKit/UIStringDrawing.h rather than Core Text.