ios - How to disable copy paste option from UITextField programmatically

Question

I am making a registration alertview that has a UITextField in it where the user can enter their registration number. everything is pretty much their, however I would like to remove the copy paste function from the textfield programmatically since their is no InterfaceBuilder version of the textfield I have no idea how to do this..

here Is my UIalertview thus far...

- (void)pleaseRegisterDevice {

    UIAlertView *myAlertView = [[UIAlertView alloc] initWithTitle:@"Please Register Device!" message:@"this gets covered" delegate:self cancelButtonTitle:nil otherButtonTitles:@"OK", nil];
    regTextField = [[UITextField alloc] initWithFrame:CGRectMake(12.0, 45.0, 260.0, 25.0)];
    [regTextField setBackgroundColor:[UIColor whiteColor]];
    regTextField.textAlignment = UITextAlignmentCenter;
    [myAlertView addSubview:regTextField];
    [myAlertView show];
    [myAlertView release];

}

Answer 1

This post has many nice solutions: How disable Copy, Cut, Select, Select All in UITextView

My favourite is to override canPerformAction:withSender::

- (BOOL)canPerformAction:(SEL)action withSender:(id)sender
{
    if (action == @selector(paste:))
        return NO;
    return [super canPerformAction:action withSender:sender];
}