Question

Is there a way to determine when a UIMenuController has been dismissed? I have a (non-editable) text area I’m highlighting when the menu is brought up, and I’d like to un-highlight it when they either select an item (easy) or cancel (not possible?)

Answer 1

On state changes UIMenuController posts notifications to the default NSNotification center. You can subscribe to them to get notified when the system hides the menu:

[[NSNotificationCenter defaultCenter] addObserver:self selector:@selector(willHideEditMenu:) name:UIMenuControllerWillHideMenuNotification object:nil];
[[NSNotificationCenter defaultCenter] addObserver:self selector:@selector(didHideEditMenu:) name:UIMenuControllerDidHideMenuNotification object:nil];