Can I access views when drawn in the drawRect method?

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Published on 2011-01-11T18:38:59Z Indexed on 2011/01/11 18:53 UTC
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When creating the content view of a tableViewCell, I used the drawInRect:withFont, drawAtPoint... and others, inside drawRect: since all I needed was to lay some text. Turns out, part of the text drawn need to be clickable URLs. So I decided to create a UIWebView and insert it into my drawRect. Everything seems to be laid out fine, the problem is that interaction with the UIWebView is not happening. I tried enabling the interaction, did not work. I want to know, since with drawRect: I am drawing to the current graphics context, there is anything I can do to have my subviews interact with the user?
here is some of my code I use inside the UITableViewCell class.

-(void) drawRect:(CGRect)rect{  
    NSString *comment = @"something";
    [comment drawAtPoint:point forWidth:195 withFont:someFont lineBreakMode:UILineBreakModeMiddleTruncation];

    NSString *anotherCommentWithURL = @"this comment has a URL http://twtr.us";
    UIWebView *webView = [[UIWebView alloc] initWithFrame:someFrame];
    webView.delegate = self;
    webView.text = anotherCommentWithURL;
    [self addSubView:webView];
    [webView release];
}

As I said, the view draws fine, but there is no interaction with the webView from the outside. the URL gets embedded into HTML and should be clickable. It is not. I got it working on another view, but on that one I lay the views. Any ideas?

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