From 4889e0a0f0525d809b68245b365ec622c6661a9a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "B. Petersen" <r10s@b44t.com>
Date: Tue, 17 Dec 2024 23:45:42 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] factor our gesture detection

---
 deltachat-ios/Chat/ChatViewController.swift |  9 +++++++
 deltachat-ios/Chat/Views/MessageLabel.swift | 28 +++++++++++++--------
 2 files changed, 26 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)

diff --git a/deltachat-ios/Chat/ChatViewController.swift b/deltachat-ios/Chat/ChatViewController.swift
index bd412610e..ecf2d6706 100644
--- a/deltachat-ios/Chat/ChatViewController.swift
+++ b/deltachat-ios/Chat/ChatViewController.swift
@@ -2028,6 +2028,15 @@ extension ChatViewController {
             return nil
         }
 
+        // Check if the long tap is on a link (or other message text element with custom long tap behavior)
+        if let msgcell = tableView.cellForRow(at: indexPath) as? BaseMessageCell {
+            let label = msgcell.messageLabel.label
+            let localTouchLocation = tableView.convert(point, to: label)
+            if let (detectorType, value) = label.detectGesture(localTouchLocation) {
+                print("url: \(detectorType) -- \(value) -- ")
+            }
+        }
+
         return UIContextMenuConfiguration(
             identifier: NSString(string: "\(messageId)"),
             previewProvider: nil,
diff --git a/deltachat-ios/Chat/Views/MessageLabel.swift b/deltachat-ios/Chat/Views/MessageLabel.swift
index f23956e40..2f3617354 100644
--- a/deltachat-ios/Chat/Views/MessageLabel.swift
+++ b/deltachat-ios/Chat/Views/MessageLabel.swift
@@ -452,17 +452,23 @@ open class MessageLabel: UILabel {
 
     }
 
-  open func handleGesture(_ touchLocation: CGPoint) -> Bool {
-
-        guard let index = stringIndex(at: touchLocation) else { return false }
-
-        for (detectorType, ranges) in rangesForDetectors {
-            for (range, value) in ranges {
-                if range.contains(index) {
-                    handleGesture(for: detectorType, value: value)
-                    return true
-                }
-            }
+    internal func detectGesture(_ touchLocation: CGPoint) -> (DetectorType, NewMessageTextCheckingType)? {
+          guard let index = stringIndex(at: touchLocation) else { return nil }
+
+          for (detectorType, ranges) in rangesForDetectors {
+              for (range, value) in ranges {
+                  if range.contains(index) {
+                      return (detectorType, value)
+                  }
+              }
+          }
+          return nil
+    }
+
+    open func handleGesture(_ touchLocation: CGPoint) -> Bool {
+        if let (detectorType, value) = detectGesture(touchLocation) {
+            handleGesture(for: detectorType, value: value)
+            return true
         }
         return false
     }