In my app for iPad I have to use a Text View. I wrote some text in it. I wanted to make the alignment of the text justified, but their are only 3 options for text alignment, a) Left Alignment, b) Center Alignment and c) Right Alignment. Their is no option of making it justified. So how can I make the alignment of the text in the text view in Justified manner?
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Don't use a UITextView, use something that can justify such as UIWebView.
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I am trying to put a background image into a text-field (it's just a search icon). And it is tiling the image in the text field. Is it possible to turn off the repeating of the image? i don't see anything like that, i'm seeing padding and position for background images but nothing to turn off the tiling of the image. is this not possible in pixate yet?
thanks!
You should be able to set background-size to the size of your text-field so it won't have anything to repeat.
I battled this same problem, and in the end, I found I got what I wanted by using multiple objects. Even if you get the search icon to work right, you're probably going to notice the UITextField doesn't pad the text away from the icon.
Anyway, here's how I ended up doing it so that I had full control over the style.
So you can put your search icon in the UIImageView and then define your text field's style (border, background color, etc.) with the UIView. The UITextField ends up being plain white/transparent, and positioned so that its text doesn't overrun the search icon.
I hope that helps.
I like the AppBarButtonStyle idea of using font character as button icon because of its scaling abilities, but it is of no use if i cannot resize them properly.
Changing Width or Height of button does not work, because AppBarButtonStyle only resizes padding between button icon and button borders. Changing FontSize of button does not work either.
Is there any way of resizing buttons styled with AppBarButtonStyle in WinRT application? I dont mind if i have to override or modify AppBarButtonStyle, as long as it preserves the ability to use font character as button icon.
Any useful advices will be appreciated!
You can easily create your own custom button from AppBarButtonStyle from the original in the standardstyles.xaml .
I did so to create a custom smaller button with no text and the only hard part was aligning everything: you're not adding shapes, you're adding a character, so it may not be as aligned as you think. Default Buttons contain 3 charatctes: outline, fill and glyph.
If you want, I can share my simplified code for the control.
I want to create a view which contains image and text, like a newspaper has.
For example, in 320 pixel width, a 200 x 100 image. The image is on the left side of the view, and the remaining space on the right side and bottom will contain text.
Well you can 3 options:
Create a layout with UIIImageViews and UITextView
Use HTML and UIWebView
NSAttributedString and draw it on a view with CoreText
That's almost certainly laid out in an UIWebView, with the styling on the image set to "float: left" with margin settings that hold the text off from the edge of it but let it wrap around it.
Here's a little tutorial about it: http://www.tizag.com/cssT/float.php
Note that this is about the HTML and CSS content to feed the UIWebView, not anything iOS-ish.
You arrange UIImageViews and UITextViews in the way you want them by setting their frames. Then assign images to the imageViews and text to the textViews.
I am trying to implement a control to edit text that will display the text in multiple colors. None of the solutions I have attempted yet have been good enough.
UITextView cannot accomplish this. All of the text must be the same color.
Using CoreGraphics to draw the text does not allow the text to be selected.
Using a UIWebView, DIV and PRE tags cannot be set to contentEditable on Mobile Safari.
Currently playing with using an off-screen TEXTAREA and an on-screen DIV to show the rendered text. This works pretty well, except supporting all of these at the same time seems impossible: click-to-type, click-to-move-cursor, click-and-hold-select/copy/paste.
Anyone have any tips on this predicament?
I've been trying to find any preexisting library out there that will accomplish this in a good way, to no luck. I'm open to any ideas!
Well, just pulling an idea out of my... let's say hat.
Could you put a transparent UITextfield over a view that draws the text? If the background was clear and the text color was clear the user could not perceive it but it should still respond to all commands. As the user enters and edits text you could draw the results on the view underneath.
I think the selection would work without any modification at all. When the user selected the clear text, it should create the illusion of selecting the drawn text automatically.
Like this one? StyledText http://three20.info/gfx/overview/styledtext.png It's in Three20 .
Here is an idea. I have no idea if it would work.
If you are only using colors, and not styles, the a UIWebView with colored text might layout text in exactly the same way as a UITextView. You could put a UITextView with invisible ink (text and background fully transparent) over a UIWebView and mirror the contents with colors in the html. I assume you can do scrolling with javascript along with the colored layout.
How do I get justified text with UTTextField. It does have an textAlignment property. But the UITextAlignment constant only has left, right, and center justification.
What I am seeking is the Justified text common in word processing app with text flush with both left and right edges. This is a read only text field.
I have seen it in few iPhone apps. So it seems I am missing something.
It's a bit of an overkill maybe, but one way seems to be to use a WebView for it and style the text with CSS.
UILabel and UITextField do not support full-justified text. If you want it for a UITextField, you would have to create a subclass of UITextField and override drawTextInRect:, splitting the text into words and using sizeWithFont: to figure out how to space them along each line.
I cannot imagine what would be worth the trouble.