porting an app to iPad: alternatives for a context-menu? UI advice please

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Published on 2010-05-05T17:05:48Z Indexed on 2010/05/05 17:08 UTC
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Considering porting/rewriting an app for the iPad and need some UI advice. On the iPad is there a way to pop a context-menu up from a text field without the text field losing focus? If not, what is the closest thing in the UI to this sort of functionality?

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