Objective C: How to create a multi-line UITextField? [duplicate] - objective-c

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How to create a multiline UITextfield?
How can I implement a multiple line textfield like what I see in the iPhone messaging app?
It seems like the once the length of input exceeds the length, a second line will be auto created.
EDIT: Updated to clarify my challenges in using a UITextView
For me, I would like to model the feel and look of the UITextView to that as shown below. I am not sure how I can do it with UITextView as suggested. For example
1) How to expand the box dynamically if my text needs to overflow to next line
2) How to add the border and styling as shown below
3) How to attach the text box right above the keyboard (instead of in the view)
I know that Instagram have this as well, if someone can point me to the correct direction, that will be great. Thanks in advnce

Check these answers:
How to create a multiline UITextfield?
How to create a multiline UITextfield?
http://brettschumann.com/blog/2010/01/15/iphone-multiline-textbox-for-sms-style-chat
And definitly try Three20 which is a great library used in many app like Facebook.
Edit: Added extract from BrettSchumann blog
#import <uikit uikit.h="">
#interface MultilineTextboxViewController : UIViewController {
IBOutlet UIView *viewTable;
IBOutlet UIView *viewForm;
IBOutlet UITextView *chatBox;
IBOutlet UIButton *chatButton;
}
#property (nonatomic, retain) UIView *viewTable;
#property (nonatomic, retain) UIView *viewForm;
#property (nonatomic, retain) UITextView *chatBox;
#property (nonatomic, retain) UIButton *chatButton;
- (IBAction)chatButtonClick:(id)sender;
#end
</uikit>
With that done and while we are setting everything up lets go and add our items to our main (.m) file at the same time not forgetting to de-allocate them as well.
#synthesize viewTable;
#synthesize viewForm;
#synthesize chatBox;
#synthesize chatButton;
- (void)dealloc{
[viewTable release];
[viewForm release];
[chatBox release];
[chatButton release];
[super dealloc];
}
In the (void)viewDidLoad method we need to add some notification observers so that we can see when the keyboard is shown or hidden and when the user presses a key on the keyboard.
- (void)viewDidLoad {
//set notification for when keyboard shows/hides
[[NSNotificationCenter defaultCenter] addObserver:self
selector:#selector(keyboardWillShow:)
name:UIKeyboardWillShowNotification
object:nil];
[[NSNotificationCenter defaultCenter] addObserver:self
selector:#selector(keyboardWillHide:)
name:UIKeyboardWillHideNotification
object:nil];
//set notification for when a key is pressed.
[[NSNotificationCenter defaultCenter] addObserver:self
selector: #selector(keyPressed:)
name: UITextViewTextDidChangeNotification
object: nil];
//turn off scrolling and set the font details.
chatBox.scrollEnabled = NO;
chatBox.font = [UIFont fontWithName:#"Helvetica" size:14];
[super viewDidLoad];
}
When focus is set on the textview the keyboard will be shown. Because the textview and buttons are both in the lower viewForm on the screen, the keyboard is going to ride up and go over these. So what we want to do is adjust the height of viewTable and the position of viewForm. We do this in the following method.
-(void) keyboardWillShow:(NSNotification *)note{
// get keyboard size and loction
CGRect keyboardBounds;
[[note.userInfo valueForKey:UIKeyboardBoundsUserInfoKey] getValue: &keyboardBounds];
// get the height since this is the main value that we need.
NSInteger kbSizeH = keyboardBounds.size.height;
// get a rect for the table/main frame
CGRect tableFrame = viewTable.frame;
tableFrame.size.height -= kbSizeH;
// get a rect for the form frame
CGRect formFrame = viewForm.frame;
formFrame.origin.y -= kbSizeH;
// animations settings
[UIView beginAnimations:nil context:NULL];
[UIView setAnimationBeginsFromCurrentState:YES];
[UIView setAnimationDuration:0.3f];
// set views with new info
viewTable.frame = tableFrame;
viewForm.frame = formFrame;
// commit animations
[UIView commitAnimations];
}
Now that the keyboard is shown and our views have been adjusted we want to capture the text the user is entering and see if we need to make any adjustments to the chatBox. Lucky for us we can use the CGSize object, pass it some text, and tell the object what size we would want to constrain the text to and from that we can calculate get height.Now this is where a little trial and error comes in. The line varies with the size of the font and your width of your CGSize object will vary with the width of your UITextview so you will have to experiment a little. The value of 12 use in the code below is the difference in height between the starting height of my chatBox and the line height based on the font that I have set.
-(void) keyPressed: (NSNotification*) notification{
// get the size of the text block so we can work our magic
CGSize newSize = [chatBox.text
sizeWithFont:[UIFont fontWithName:#"Helvetica" size:14]
constrainedToSize:CGSizeMake(222,9999)
lineBreakMode:UILineBreakModeWordWrap];
NSInteger newSizeH = newSize.height;
NSInteger newSizeW = newSize.width;
// I output the new dimensions to the console
// so we can see what is happening
NSLog(#"NEW SIZE : %d X %d", newSizeW, newSizeH);
if (chatBox.hasText)
{
// if the height of our new chatbox is
// below 90 we can set the height
if (newSizeH <= 90)
{
[chatBox scrollRectToVisible:CGRectMake(0,0,1,1) animated:NO];
// chatbox
CGRect chatBoxFrame = chatBox.frame;
NSInteger chatBoxH = chatBoxFrame.size.height;
NSInteger chatBoxW = chatBoxFrame.size.width;
NSLog(#"CHAT BOX SIZE : %d X %d", chatBoxW, chatBoxH);
chatBoxFrame.size.height = newSizeH + 12;
chatBox.frame = chatBoxFrame;
// form view
CGRect formFrame = viewForm.frame;
NSInteger viewFormH = formFrame.size.height;
NSLog(#"FORM VIEW HEIGHT : %d", viewFormH);
formFrame.size.height = 30 + newSizeH;
formFrame.origin.y = 199 - (newSizeH - 18);
viewForm.frame = formFrame;
// table view
CGRect tableFrame = viewTable.frame;
NSInteger viewTableH = tableFrame.size.height;
NSLog(#"TABLE VIEW HEIGHT : %d", viewTableH);
tableFrame.size.height = 199 - (newSizeH - 18);
viewTable.frame = tableFrame;
}
// if our new height is greater than 90
// sets not set the height or move things
// around and enable scrolling
if (newSizeH > 90)
{
chatBox.scrollEnabled = YES;
}
}
}
Once we are and the user presses the send button we want to do something with our text, the keyword will disappear and we want to reset our view back as they were. So how do we do that?
- (IBAction)chatButtonClick:(id)sender{
// hide the keyboard, we are done with it.
[chatBox resignFirstResponder];
chatBox.text = nil;
// chatbox
CGRect chatBoxFrame = chatBox.frame;
chatBoxFrame.size.height = 30;
chatBox.frame = chatBoxFrame;
// form view
CGRect formFrame = viewForm.frame;
formFrame.size.height = 45;
formFrame.origin.y = 415;
viewForm.frame = formFrame;
// table view
CGRect tableFrame = viewTable.frame;
tableFrame.size.height = 415;
viewTable.frame = tableFrame;
}
The resignFirstResponder is going to hide the keyboard and then all we have to do is set the views and chatBox back to their original states.
-(void) keyboardWillHide:(NSNotification *)note{
// get keyboard size and loction
CGRect keyboardBounds;
[[note.userInfo valueForKey:UIKeyboardBoundsUserInfoKey] getValue: &keyboardBounds];
// get the height since this is the main value that we need.
NSInteger kbSizeH = keyboardBounds.size.height;
// get a rect for the table/main frame
CGRect tableFrame = viewTable.frame;
tableFrame.size.height += kbSizeH;
// get a rect for the form frame
CGRect formFrame = viewForm.frame;
formFrame.origin.y += kbSizeH;
// animations settings
[UIView beginAnimations:nil context:NULL];
[UIView setAnimationBeginsFromCurrentState:YES];
[UIView setAnimationDuration:0.3f];
// set views with new info
viewTable.frame = tableFrame;
viewForm.frame = formFrame;
// commit animations
[UIView commitAnimations];
}
And there you go, a textview that starts off as a single line and grows in size as the user enters text to a max size before becoming a scrolling textview.

UITextField doesn't let you to write more than one line... but you can use UITextView instead, and use the NSString -sizeWithFont function to understand how much space you need.
like this:
CGSize size = [yourTextView.text sizeWithFont:yourTextView.font];
CGRect f = yourTextView.frame;
f.size.height = ceil(size.width/f.size.width)*size.height
yourTextView.frame = f;
I didn't tried this code, but I already used a code like that in the past.
I hope my informations may be useful :)

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COCOA: How to create a round button. It should be clickable only in its boundary

I am trying to create a round button which is only clickable in its boundaries.
What I have done
// imported QuartzCore
#import <QuartzCore/QuartzCore.h>
//created an IBOutlet for the button
IBOutlet NSButton* btn;
//defined the button height width (same)
#define ROUND_BUTTON_WIDTH_HEIGHT 150
//set corner radius
- (void)applicationDidFinishLaunching:(NSNotification *)aNotification {
// Insert code here to initialize your application
btn.frame = CGRectMake(0, 0, ROUND_BUTTON_WIDTH_HEIGHT, ROUND_BUTTON_WIDTH_HEIGHT);
btn.layer.cornerRadius = ROUND_BUTTON_WIDTH_HEIGHT/2.0f;
}
//set view layer to YES
Problem
The button is clickable outside its boundaries.
When I am setting its position and when I am resizing the window it is getting back to its right position (the actual positon of the button is center of the window)
I have also tried to subclass NSButton and assign the class to the button but results are the same.
#import "roundBtn.h"
#import <QuartzCore/QuartzCore.h>
#implementation roundBtn
#define ROUND_BUTTON_WIDTH_HEIGHT 142
- (void)drawRect:(NSRect)dirtyRect {
[super drawRect:dirtyRect];
// Drawing code here.
self.frame = CGRectMake(0, 0, ROUND_BUTTON_WIDTH_HEIGHT, ROUND_BUTTON_WIDTH_HEIGHT);
self.layer.cornerRadius = ROUND_BUTTON_WIDTH_HEIGHT/2.0f;
}
#end
You can either reimplement the button behavior using a custom NSView and then it will respect the mouseDown events of a masksToBounds layer. NSButton doesn't work this way so the only way to tell your subclassed button that it won't be hit outside of the circle is to override the -hitTest: method to detect hits within the circle:
- (NSView *)hitTest:(NSPoint)aPoint {
NSPoint p = [self convertPoint:aPoint fromView:self.superview];
CGFloat midX = NSMidX(self.bounds);
CGFloat midY = NSMidY(self.bounds);
if (sqrt(pow(p.x-midX, 2) + pow(p.y-midY, 2)) < self.bounds.size.width/2.0) {
return self;
}
return nil;
}
In overriding this, you are telling the button that it will only register a hit if it is within the circle (using a little trigonometry). Returning self indicates the button was hit, returning nil indicates it was not hit.

How to resize the textview along with toolbar according to the content in objective c

I used the following code, but I couldnt get the result
CGRect newFrame = _text_view.frame;
CGRect newToolbarFrame = self.navigationController.toolbar.frame;
newFrame.size = CGSizeMake(fmaxf(newSize.width, fixedWidth), newSize.height);
From the above code please let me know what is newsize?
For extending the height of textview upwards as per the content, I used this gitHub project.
And for simply changing the location of text view so that it remains above keyboard, try this
// First add these
[[NSNotificationCenter defaultCenter] addObserver:self selector:#selector(keyboardWillShow:) name:UIKeyboardWillShowNotification object:nil];
[[NSNotificationCenter defaultCenter] addObserver:self selector:#selector(keyboardWillHide:) name:UIKeyboardWillHideNotification object:nil];
Then in these methods, do this
- (void) keyboardWillShow:(NSNotification *)note {
//Get keyboard size and loctaion
CGRect keyboardBounds;
[[note.userInfo valueForKey:UIKeyboardFrameEndUserInfoKey] getValue: &keyboardBounds];
// get a rect for the textView frame
CGRect containerFrame = _text_view.frame;
// Provided you keep fixed number of maximum lines
containerFrame.origin.y = self.view.bounds.size.height - (keyboardBounds.size.height + containerFrame.size.height);
// set views with new info
_text_view.frame = containerFrame;
// Change toolbar location as per it's height
_tool.frame=CGRectMake(0,
_text_view.frame.origin.y - _tool.frame.size.height,
_tool.frame.size.width,
_tool.frame.size.height);
}
- (void) keyboardWillHide:(NSNotification *)note{
CGRect keyboardBounds;
[[note.userInfo valueForKey:UIKeyboardFrameEndUserInfoKey] getValue: &keyboardBounds];
// get a rect for the textView frame
CGRect containerFrame = _text_view.frame;
containerFrame.origin.y = self.view.bounds.size.height - containerFrame.size.height;
// set views with new info
_text_view.frame = containerFrame;
// Similarly again change toolbar location
}
Or you can simply keep textview in scrollView and change the insets of scroll view when keyboard shows up.

How do I size a UITextView to its content on iOS 7?

I've been using the accepted answer here for years.
On iOS 7, the contentSize.height becomes the frame.height-8, regardless of text content.
What's a working method to adjust the height on iOS 7?
I favor this minimal code change: Just add these two lines after addSubview and before grabbing the height of the frame
...
[scrollView1 addSubview: myTextView];
[myTextView sizeToFit]; //added
[myTextView layoutIfNeeded]; //added
CGRect frame = myTextView.frame;
...
This is tested backwards compatible with iOS 6. NOTE that it shrink-wraps the width. If you're just interested in the height and have a fixed width, just grab the new height but set the original width, and it works just as before on both iOS 6 and 7.
(Speculation: it does size to fit on iOS 7 as well, but the layout is updated later or in a separate thread, and that this forces the layout immediately so that its frame is updated in time for using its height value a few lines later in the same thread.)
NOTES:
1) You might or might not have implemented the outer container resize this way. It does seem to be a common snippet, though, and I've used it in my projects.
2) Since sizeToFit seems to work as expected on iOS 7, you likely don't need the premature addSubView. Whether it will still work on iOS 6 then is untested by me.
3) Speculation: The extra layoutIfNeeded mid-thread might be costly. The alternative as I see it is to resize the outer container on the layout callback (fired or not depending on if the OS decides whether layout is needed or not) where the outer container resize will cause another layout update. Both updates might be combined with other layout updates to be more efficient. If you do have such a solution and you can show that it is more efficient, add it as answer and I'll be sure to mention it here.
Since I'm using Auto Layout, I use the value of [textView sizeThatFits:CGSizeMake(textView.frame.size.width, CGFLOAT_MAX)].height to update the constant of the textView's height UILayoutConstraint.
I use an adapted version of madmik's answer that eliminates the fudge factor:
- (CGFloat)measureHeightOfUITextView:(UITextView *)textView
{
if ([textView respondsToSelector:#selector(snapshotViewAfterScreenUpdates:)])
{
// This is the code for iOS 7. contentSize no longer returns the correct value, so
// we have to calculate it.
//
// This is partly borrowed from HPGrowingTextView, but I've replaced the
// magic fudge factors with the calculated values (having worked out where
// they came from)
CGRect frame = textView.bounds;
// Take account of the padding added around the text.
UIEdgeInsets textContainerInsets = textView.textContainerInset;
UIEdgeInsets contentInsets = textView.contentInset;
CGFloat leftRightPadding = textContainerInsets.left + textContainerInsets.right + textView.textContainer.lineFragmentPadding * 2 + contentInsets.left + contentInsets.right;
CGFloat topBottomPadding = textContainerInsets.top + textContainerInsets.bottom + contentInsets.top + contentInsets.bottom;
frame.size.width -= leftRightPadding;
frame.size.height -= topBottomPadding;
NSString *textToMeasure = textView.text;
if ([textToMeasure hasSuffix:#"\n"])
{
textToMeasure = [NSString stringWithFormat:#"%#-", textView.text];
}
// NSString class method: boundingRectWithSize:options:attributes:context is
// available only on ios7.0 sdk.
NSMutableParagraphStyle *paragraphStyle = [[NSMutableParagraphStyle alloc] init];
[paragraphStyle setLineBreakMode:NSLineBreakByWordWrapping];
NSDictionary *attributes = #{ NSFontAttributeName: textView.font, NSParagraphStyleAttributeName : paragraphStyle };
CGRect size = [textToMeasure boundingRectWithSize:CGSizeMake(CGRectGetWidth(frame), MAXFLOAT)
options:NSStringDrawingUsesLineFragmentOrigin
attributes:attributes
context:nil];
CGFloat measuredHeight = ceilf(CGRectGetHeight(size) + topBottomPadding);
return measuredHeight;
}
else
{
return textView.contentSize.height;
}
}
Based on other answers, I made it work(in Swift).
This solves the problem with newline character.
textView.sizeToFit()
textView.layoutIfNeeded()
let height = textView.sizeThatFits(CGSizeMake(textView.frame.size.width, CGFloat.max)).height
textView.contentSize.height = height
Auto Layout is needed.
If you're using Auto Layout, you could create a trivial UITextView subclass that self-sizes the text view height to fit the content:
#interface ContentHeightTextView : UITextView
#end
#interface ContentHeightTextView ()
#property (nonatomic, strong) NSLayoutConstraint *heightConstraint;
#end
#implementation ContentHeightTextView
- (void)layoutSubviews
{
[super layoutSubviews];
CGSize size = [self sizeThatFits:CGSizeMake(self.bounds.size.width, FLT_MAX)];
if (!self.heightConstraint) {
self.heightConstraint = [NSLayoutConstraint constraintWithItem:self attribute:NSLayoutAttributeHeight relatedBy:NSLayoutRelationEqual toItem:nil attribute:0 multiplier:1.0f constant:size.height];
[self addConstraint:self.heightConstraint];
}
self.heightConstraint.constant = size.height;
[super layoutSubviews];
}
#end
Of course, the text view's width and position must be defined by additional constraints configured elsewhere in the program.
If you create this custom text view in IB, give the text view a height constraint in order to satisfy Xcode; just make sure the height constraint created in IB is merely a placeholder (i.e., tick the box that says "Remove at build time").
An alternative way to implement the UITextView subclass is as follows (this implementation might qualify as best practice):
#interface ContentHeightTextView ()
#property (nonatomic, strong) NSLayoutConstraint *heightConstraint;
#end
#implementation ContentHeightTextView
- (void)layoutSubviews
{
[super layoutSubviews];
[self setNeedsUpdateConstraints];
}
- (void)updateConstraints
{
CGSize size = [self sizeThatFits:CGSizeMake(self.bounds.size.width, FLT_MAX)];
if (!self.heightConstraint) {
self.heightConstraint = [NSLayoutConstraint constraintWithItem:self attribute:NSLayoutAttributeHeight relatedBy:NSLayoutRelationEqual toItem:nil attribute:0 multiplier:1.0f constant:size.height];
[self addConstraint:self.heightConstraint];
}
self.heightConstraint.constant = size.height;
[super updateConstraints];
}
#end
If you are using auto-layout, you can use the following UITextView subclass that adds an intrinsic height:
#implementation SelfSizingTextView
- (void)setText:(NSString *)text
{
[super setText:text];
[self invalidateIntrinsicContentSize];
}
- (void)setFont:(UIFont *)font
{
[super setFont:font];
[self invalidateIntrinsicContentSize];
}
- (CGSize)intrinsicContentSize
{
CGFloat width = self.frame.size.width;
CGSize size = [self sizeThatFits:CGSizeMake(width, MAXFLOAT)];
return CGSizeMake(UIViewNoIntrinsicMetric, size.height);
}
#end
this method seems to work.
// Code from apple developer forum - #Steve Krulewitz, #Mark Marszal, #Eric Silverberg
- (CGFloat)measureHeight
{
if ([self respondsToSelector:#selector(snapshotViewAfterScreenUpdates:)])
{
CGRect frame = internalTextView.bounds;
CGSize fudgeFactor;
// The padding added around the text on iOS6 and iOS7 is different.
fudgeFactor = CGSizeMake(10.0, 16.0);
frame.size.height -= fudgeFactor.height;
frame.size.width -= fudgeFactor.width;
NSMutableAttributedString* textToMeasure;
if(internalTextView.attributedText && internalTextView.attributedText.length > 0){
textToMeasure = [[NSMutableAttributedString alloc] initWithAttributedString:internalTextView.attributedText];
}
else{
textToMeasure = [[NSMutableAttributedString alloc] initWithString:internalTextView.text];
[textToMeasure addAttribute:NSFontAttributeName value:internalTextView.font range:NSMakeRange(0, textToMeasure.length)];
}
if ([textToMeasure.string hasSuffix:#"\n"])
{
[textToMeasure appendAttributedString:[[NSAttributedString alloc] initWithString:#"-" attributes:#{NSFontAttributeName: internalTextView.font}]];
}
// NSAttributedString class method: boundingRectWithSize:options:context is
// available only on ios7.0 sdk.
CGRect size = [textToMeasure boundingRectWithSize:CGSizeMake(CGRectGetWidth(frame), MAXFLOAT)
options:NSStringDrawingUsesLineFragmentOrigin
context:nil];
return CGRectGetHeight(size) + fudgeFactor.height;
}
else
{
return self.internalTextView.contentSize.height;
}
}
If you're using iOS 7+, you can just turn on auto layout, pin each of the sides of the text view to the edge of its parent view, and it works fine. No additional code needed.
Not sure if this was always the case but the following is true since at least iOS 10.
UITextView implements the intrinsicContentSize property if scrollEnabled == NO. That means you just need to make sure the width of the text view is constrained enough and then you can use the intrinsic content height (either via Auto Layout content hugging/compression resistance priorities or directly using the value during manual layout).
Unfortunately, this behavior is not documented. Apple could have easily saved us all some headaches… no need for an extra height constraint, subclassing, etc.
In iOS 8 you'll in inherit some content offset from the parent, which you need to get rid of as well.
A subclass example
// Originally from https://github.com/Nikita2k/resizableTextView
#import "ResizableTextView.h"
#implementation ResizableTextView
- (void) updateConstraints {
// calculate contentSize manually
// ios7 doesn't calculate it before viewDidAppear and we'll get here before
CGSize contentSize = [self sizeThatFits:CGSizeMake(self.frame.size.width, FLT_MAX)];
// set the height constraint to change textView height
[self.constraints enumerateObjectsUsingBlock:^(NSLayoutConstraint *constraint, NSUInteger idx, BOOL *stop) {
if (constraint.firstAttribute == NSLayoutAttributeHeight) {
constraint.constant = contentSize.height;
*stop = YES;
}
}];
[super updateConstraints];
}
- (void)setContentOffset:(CGPoint)contentOffset
{
// In iOS 8 we seem to be inheriting the content offset from the parent.
// I'm not interested
}
#end
In storyboard, if using constraints, make sure you are constrained to your superview in the 'ruler' tab of the right-hand pane on xcode for the UITextView. My problem was that I had a constraint of -80 pts on the 'Trailing space to'.
Guys using autolayout and your sizetofit isn't working, then please check your width constraint once. If you had missed the width constraint then the height will be accurate.
No need to use any other API. just one line would fix all the issue.
[_textView sizeToFit];
Here, I was only concerned with height, keeping the width fixed and had missed the width constraint of my TextView in storyboard.
And this was to show up the dynamic content from the services.
Hope this might help..
I wrote a category over UITextView:
- (CGSize)intrinsicContentSize {
return self.contentSize;
}
- (void)setContentSize:(CGSize)contentSize {
[super setContentSize:contentSize];
[self invalidateIntrinsicContentSize];
}
When UIKit sets its contentSize, UITextView adjusts its intrinsic content size. That plays nicely with autolayout.
The answer given by bilobatum worked perfectly With auto layout, i.e subclassing the textview.
If you want to limit the height of the text view add another constraint (I added it using storyboard i.e. height <= 166 (height as per your need))
Then inside subclass reduce the priority of height constraint to 750 (self.heightConstraint.priority = 750) to avoid conflict between height constraint added in subclass and height constraint added on storyboard.

UITableViewCell with UITextView height in iOS 7?

How can I calculate the height of an UITableViewCell with an UITextView in it in iOS 7?
I found a lot of answers on similar questions, but sizeWithFont: takes part in every solution and this method is deprecated!
I know I have to use - (CGFloat)tableView:heightForRowAtIndexPath: but how do I calculate the height my TextView needs to display the whole text?
First of all, it is very important to note, that there is a big difference between UITextView and UILabel when it comes to how text is rendered. Not only does UITextView have insets on all borders, but also the text layout inside it is slightly different.
Therefore, sizeWithFont: is a bad way to go for UITextViews.
Instead UITextView itself has a function called sizeThatFits: which will return the smallest size needed to display all contents of the UITextView inside a bounding box, that you can specify.
The following will work equally for both iOS 7 and older versions and as of right now does not include any methods, that are deprecated.
Simple Solution
- (CGFloat)textViewHeightForAttributedText: (NSAttributedString*)text andWidth: (CGFloat)width {
UITextView *calculationView = [[UITextView alloc] init];
[calculationView setAttributedText:text];
CGSize size = [calculationView sizeThatFits:CGSizeMake(width, FLT_MAX)];
return size.height;
}
This function will take a NSAttributedString and the desired width as a CGFloat and return the height needed
Detailed Solution
Since I have recently done something similar, I thought I would also share some solutions to the connected Issues I encountered. I hope it will help somebody.
This is far more in depth and will cover the following:
Of course: setting the height of a UITableViewCell based on the size needed to display the full contents of a contained UITextView
Respond to text changes (and animate the height changes of the row)
Keeping the cursor inside the visible area and keeping first responder on the UITextView when resizing the UITableViewCell while editing
If you are working with a static table view or you only have a known number of UITextViews, you can potentially make step 2 much simpler.
1. First, overwrite the heightForRowAtIndexPath:
- (CGFloat)tableView:(UITableView *)tableView heightForRowAtIndexPath:(NSIndexPath *)indexPath {
// check here, if it is one of the cells, that needs to be resized
// to the size of the contained UITextView
if ( )
return [self textViewHeightForRowAtIndexPath:indexPath];
else
// return your normal height here:
return 100.0;
}
2. Define the function that calculated the needed height:
Add an NSMutableDictionary (in this example called textViews) as an instance variable to your UITableViewController subclass.
Use this dictionary to store references to the individual UITextViews like so:
(and yes, indexPaths are valid keys for dictionaries)
- (UITableViewCell *)tableView:(UITableView *)tableView cellForRowAtIndexPath:(NSIndexPath *)indexPath
{
static NSString *CellIdentifier = #"Cell";
UITableViewCell *cell = [tableView dequeueReusableCellWithIdentifier:CellIdentifier forIndexPath:indexPath];
// Do you cell configuring ...
[textViews setObject:cell.textView forKey:indexPath];
[cell.textView setDelegate: self]; // Needed for step 3
return cell;
}
This function will now calculate the actual height:
- (CGFloat)textViewHeightForRowAtIndexPath: (NSIndexPath*)indexPath {
UITextView *calculationView = [textViews objectForKey: indexPath];
CGFloat textViewWidth = calculationView.frame.size.width;
if (!calculationView.attributedText) {
// This will be needed on load, when the text view is not inited yet
calculationView = [[UITextView alloc] init];
calculationView.attributedText = // get the text from your datasource add attributes and insert here
textViewWidth = 290.0; // Insert the width of your UITextViews or include calculations to set it accordingly
}
CGSize size = [calculationView sizeThatFits:CGSizeMake(textViewWidth, FLT_MAX)];
return size.height;
}
3. Enable Resizing while Editing
For the next two functions, it is important, that the delegate of the UITextViews is set to your UITableViewController. If you need something else as the delegate, you can work around it by making the relevant calls from there or using the appropriate NSNotificationCenter hooks.
- (void)textViewDidChange:(UITextView *)textView {
[self.tableView beginUpdates]; // This will cause an animated update of
[self.tableView endUpdates]; // the height of your UITableViewCell
// If the UITextView is not automatically resized (e.g. through autolayout
// constraints), resize it here
[self scrollToCursorForTextView:textView]; // OPTIONAL: Follow cursor
}
4. Follow cursor while Editing
- (void)textViewDidBeginEditing:(UITextView *)textView {
[self scrollToCursorForTextView:textView];
}
This will make the UITableView scroll to the position of the cursor, if it is not inside the visible Rect of the UITableView:
- (void)scrollToCursorForTextView: (UITextView*)textView {
CGRect cursorRect = [textView caretRectForPosition:textView.selectedTextRange.start];
cursorRect = [self.tableView convertRect:cursorRect fromView:textView];
if (![self rectVisible:cursorRect]) {
cursorRect.size.height += 8; // To add some space underneath the cursor
[self.tableView scrollRectToVisible:cursorRect animated:YES];
}
}
5. Adjust visible rect, by setting insets
While editing, parts of your UITableView may be covered by the Keyboard. If the tableviews insets are not adjusted, scrollToCursorForTextView: will not be able to scroll to your cursor, if it is at the bottom of the tableview.
- (void)keyboardWillShow:(NSNotification*)aNotification {
NSDictionary* info = [aNotification userInfo];
CGSize kbSize = [[info objectForKey:UIKeyboardFrameBeginUserInfoKey] CGRectValue].size;
UIEdgeInsets contentInsets = UIEdgeInsetsMake(self.tableView.contentInset.top, 0.0, kbSize.height, 0.0);
self.tableView.contentInset = contentInsets;
self.tableView.scrollIndicatorInsets = contentInsets;
}
- (void)keyboardWillHide:(NSNotification*)aNotification {
[UIView beginAnimations:nil context:nil];
[UIView setAnimationDuration:0.35];
UIEdgeInsets contentInsets = UIEdgeInsetsMake(self.tableView.contentInset.top, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0);
self.tableView.contentInset = contentInsets;
self.tableView.scrollIndicatorInsets = contentInsets;
[UIView commitAnimations];
}
And last part:
Inside your view did load, sign up for the Notifications for Keyboard changes through NSNotificationCenter:
- (void)viewDidLoad
{
[super viewDidLoad];
[[NSNotificationCenter defaultCenter] addObserver:self selector:#selector(keyboardWillShow:) name:UIKeyboardWillShowNotification object:nil];
[[NSNotificationCenter defaultCenter] addObserver:self selector:#selector(keyboardWillHide:) name:UIKeyboardWillHideNotification object:nil];
}
Please don't get mad at me, for making this answer so long. While not all of it is needed to answer the question, I believe that there are other people who these directly related issues will be helpful to.
UPDATE:
As Dave Haupert pointed out, I forgot to include the rectVisible function:
- (BOOL)rectVisible: (CGRect)rect {
CGRect visibleRect;
visibleRect.origin = self.tableView.contentOffset;
visibleRect.origin.y += self.tableView.contentInset.top;
visibleRect.size = self.tableView.bounds.size;
visibleRect.size.height -= self.tableView.contentInset.top + self.tableView.contentInset.bottom;
return CGRectContainsRect(visibleRect, rect);
}
Also I noticed, that scrollToCursorForTextView: still included a direct reference to one of the TextFields in my project. If you have a problem with bodyTextView not being found, check the updated version of the function.
There is a new function to replace sizeWithFont, which is boundingRectWithSize.
I added the following function to my project, which makes use of the new function on iOS7 and the old one on iOS lower than 7. It has basically the same syntax as sizeWithFont:
-(CGSize)text:(NSString*)text sizeWithFont:(UIFont*)font constrainedToSize:(CGSize)size{
if(IOS_NEWER_OR_EQUAL_TO_7){
NSDictionary *attributesDictionary = [NSDictionary dictionaryWithObjectsAndKeys:
font, NSFontAttributeName,
nil];
CGRect frame = [text boundingRectWithSize:size
options:(NSStringDrawingUsesLineFragmentOrigin | NSStringDrawingUsesFontLeading)
attributes:attributesDictionary
context:nil];
return frame.size;
}else{
#pragma clang diagnostic push
#pragma clang diagnostic ignored "-Wdeprecated-declarations"
return [text sizeWithFont:font constrainedToSize:size];
#pragma clang diagnostic pop
}
}
You can add that IOS_NEWER_OR_EQUAL_TO_7 on your prefix.pch file in your project as:
#define IOS_NEWER_OR_EQUAL_TO_7 ( [ [ [ UIDevice currentDevice ] systemVersion ] floatValue ] >= 7.0 )
If you're using UITableViewAutomaticDimension I have a really simple (iOS 8 only) solution. In my case it's a static table view, but i guess you could adapt this for dynamic prototypes...
I have a constraint outlet for the text-view's height and I have implemented the following methods like this:
// Outlets
#property (weak, nonatomic) IBOutlet UITextView *textView;
#property (weak, nonatomic) IBOutlet NSLayoutConstraint *textViewHeight;
// Implementation
#pragma mark - Private Methods
- (void)updateTextViewHeight {
self.textViewHeight.constant = self.textView.contentSize.height + self.textView.contentInset.top + self.textView.contentInset.bottom;
}
#pragma mark - View Controller Overrides
- (void)viewDidLoad {
[super viewDidLoad];
[self updateTextViewHeight];
}
#pragma mark - TableView Delegate & Datasource
- (CGFloat)tableView:(UITableView *)tableView estimatedHeightForRowAtIndexPath:(NSIndexPath *)indexPath {
return 80;
}
- (CGFloat)tableView:(UITableView *)tableView heightForRowAtIndexPath:(NSIndexPath *)indexPath {
return UITableViewAutomaticDimension;
}
#pragma mark - TextViewDelegate
- (void)textViewDidChange:(UITextView *)textView {
[self.tableView beginUpdates];
[self updateTextViewHeight];
[self.tableView endUpdates];
}
But remember: the text view must be scrollable, and you must setup your constraints such that they work for automatic dimension:
setup all the view in the cell in relation to each other, with fixed heights (including the text view height, which you will change programatically)
the top most view has the top spacing and the bottom most view has the bottom spacing to the super view;
The most basic cell example is:
no other views in the cell except the textview
0 margins around all sides of the text view and a predefined height constraint for the text view.
Tim Bodeit's answer is great. I used the code of Simple Solution to correctly get the height of the text view, and use that height in heightForRowAtIndexPath. But I don't use the rest of the answer to resize the text view. Instead, I write code to change the frame of text view in cellForRowAtIndexPath.
Everything is working in iOS 6 and below, but in iOS 7 the text in text view cannot be fully shown even though the frame of text view is indeed resized. (I'm not using Auto Layout). It should be the reason that in iOS 7 there's TextKit and the position of the text is controlled by NSTextContainer in UITextView. So in my case I need to add a line to set the someTextView in order to make it work correctly in iOS 7.
if (SYSTEM_VERSION_GREATER_THAN_OR_EQUAL_TO(#"7.0")) {
someTextView.textContainer.heightTracksTextView = YES;
}
As the documentation said, what that property does is:
Controls whether the receiver adjusts the height of its bounding
rectangle when its text view is resized. Default value: NO.
If leave it with the default value, after resize the frame of someTextView, the size of the textContainer is not changed, leading to the result that the text can only be displayed in the area before resizing.
And maybe it is needed to set the scrollEnabled = NO in case there's more than one textContainer, so that the text will reflow from one textContainer to the another.
Here is one more solution that aims at simplicity and quick prototyping:
Setup:
Table with prototype cells.
Each cell contains dynamic sized UITextView w/ other contents.
Prototype cells are associated with TableCell.h.
UITableView is associated with TableViewController.h.
Solution:
(1) Add to TableViewController.m:
// This is the method that determines the height of each cell.
- (CGFloat)tableView:(UITableView *)tableView heightForRowAtIndexPath:(NSIndexPath *)indexPath
{
// I am using a helper method here to get the text at a given cell.
NSString *text = [self getTextAtIndex:indexPath];
// Getting the height needed by the dynamic text view.
CGSize size = [self frameForText:text sizeWithFont:nil constrainedToSize:CGSizeMake(300.f, CGFLOAT_MAX)];
// Return the size of the current row.
// 80 is the minimum height! Update accordingly - or else, cells are going to be too thin.
return size.height + 80;
}
// Think of this as some utility function that given text, calculates how much
// space would be needed to fit that text.
- (CGSize)frameForText:(NSString *)text sizeWithFont:(UIFont *)font constrainedToSize:(CGSize)size
{
NSDictionary *attributesDictionary = [NSDictionary dictionaryWithObjectsAndKeys:
font, NSFontAttributeName,
nil];
CGRect frame = [text boundingRectWithSize:size
options:(NSStringDrawingUsesLineFragmentOrigin | NSStringDrawingUsesFontLeading)
attributes:attributesDictionary
context:nil];
// This contains both height and width, but we really care about height.
return frame.size;
}
// Think of this as a source for the text to be rendered in the text view.
// I used a dictionary to map indexPath to some dynamically fetched text.
- (NSString *) getTextAtIndex: (NSIndexPath *) indexPath
{
return #"This is stubbed text - update it to return the text of the text view.";
}
(2) Add to TableCell.m:
// This method will be called when the cell is initialized from the storyboard
// prototype.
- (void)awakeFromNib
{
// Assuming TextView here is the text view in the cell.
TextView.scrollEnabled = YES;
}
Explanation:
So what's happening here is this: each text view is bound to the height of the table cells by vertical and horizontal constraints - that means when the table cell height increases, the text view increases its size as well. I used a modified version of #manecosta's code to calculate the required height of a text view to fit the given text in a cell. So that means given a text with X number of characters, frameForText: will return a size which will have a property size.height that matches the text view's required height.
Now, all that remains is the update the cell's height to match the required text view's height. And this is achieved at heightForRowAtIndexPath:. As noted in the comments, since size.height is only the height for the text view and not the entire cell, there should be some offset added to it. In the case of the example, this value was 80.
One approach if you're using autolayout is to let the autolayout engine calculate the size for you. This isn't the most efficient approach but it is pretty convenient (and arguably the most accurate). It becomes more convenient as the complexity of the cell layout grows - e.g. suddenly you have two or more textviews/fields in the cell.
I answered a similar question with a complete sample for sizing tableview cells using auto layout, here:
How to resize superview to fit all subviews with autolayout?
The complete smooth solution is as follows.
First, we need the cell class with a textView
#protocol TextInputTableViewCellDelegate <NSObject>
#optional
- (void)textInputTableViewCellTextWillChange:(TextInputTableViewCell *)cell;
- (void)textInputTableViewCellTextDidChange:(TextInputTableViewCell *)cell;
#end
#interface TextInputTableViewCell : UITableViewCell
#property (nonatomic, weak) id<TextInputTableViewCellDelegate> delegate;
#property (nonatomic, readonly) UITextView *textView;
#property (nonatomic) NSInteger minLines;
#property (nonatomic) CGFloat lastRelativeFrameOriginY;
#end
#import "TextInputTableViewCell.h"
#interface TextInputTableViewCell () <UITextViewDelegate> {
NSLayoutConstraint *_heightConstraint;
}
#property (nonatomic) UITextView *textView;
#end
#implementation TextInputTableViewCell
- (id)initWithStyle:(UITableViewCellStyle)style reuseIdentifier:(NSString *)reuseIdentifier {
self = [super initWithStyle:style reuseIdentifier:reuseIdentifier];
if (self) {
self.selectionStyle = UITableViewCellSelectionStyleNone;
_textView = [UITextView new];
_textView.translatesAutoresizingMaskIntoConstraints = NO;
_textView.delegate = self;
_textView.scrollEnabled = NO;
_textView.font = CELL_REG_FONT;
_textView.textContainer.lineFragmentPadding = 0.0;
_textView.textContainerInset = UIEdgeInsetsZero;
[self.contentView addSubview:_textView];
[self.contentView addConstraints: [NSLayoutConstraint constraintsWithVisualFormat:#"H:|-[view]-|" options:nil metrics:nil views:#{#"view": _textView}]];
[self.contentView addConstraints: [NSLayoutConstraint constraintsWithVisualFormat:#"V:|-[view]-|" options:nil metrics:nil views:#{#"view": _textView}]];
_heightConstraint = [NSLayoutConstraint constraintWithItem: _textView
attribute: NSLayoutAttributeHeight
relatedBy: NSLayoutRelationGreaterThanOrEqual
toItem: nil
attribute: NSLayoutAttributeNotAnAttribute
multiplier: 0.0
constant: (_textView.font.lineHeight + 15)];
_heightConstraint.priority = UILayoutPriorityRequired - 1;
[_textView addConstraint:_heightConstraint];
}
return self;
}
- (void)prepareForReuse {
[super prepareForReuse];
self.minLines = 1;
}
- (void)setMinLines:(NSInteger)minLines {
_heightConstraint.constant = minLines * _textView.font.lineHeight + 15;
}
- (BOOL)textView:(UITextView *)textView shouldChangeTextInRange:(NSRange)range replacementText:(NSString *)text {
if ([self.delegate respondsToSelector:#selector(textInputTableViewCellTextWillChange:)]) {
[self.delegate textInputTableViewCellTextWillChange:self];
}
return YES;
}
- (void)textViewDidChange:(UITextView *)textView {
if ([self.delegate respondsToSelector:#selector(textInputTableViewCellTextDidChange:)]) {
[self.delegate textInputTableViewCellTextDidChange:self];
}
}
Next, we use it in the TableViewController
#interface SomeTableViewController () <TextInputTableViewCellDelegate>
#end
#implementation SomeTableViewController
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
- (UITableViewCell *)tableView:(UITableView *)tableView cellForRowAtIndexPath:(NSIndexPath *)indexPath {
TextInputTableViewCell *cell = [tableView dequeueReusableCellWithIdentifier: TextInputTableViewCellIdentifier forIndexPath:indexPath];
cell.delegate = self;
cell.minLines = 3;
. . . . . . . . . .
return cell;
}
- (CGFloat)tableView:(UITableView *)tableView estimatedHeightForRowAtIndexPath:(NSIndexPath *)indexPath {
return UITableViewAutomaticDimension;
}
- (CGFloat)tableView:(UITableView *)tableView heightForRowAtIndexPath:(NSIndexPath *)indexPath {
return UITableViewAutomaticDimension;
}
- (void)textInputTableViewCellWillChange:(TextInputTableViewCell *)cell {
cell.lastRelativeFrameOriginY = cell.frame.origin.y - self.tableView.contentOffset.y;
}
- (void)textInputTableViewCellTextDidChange:(TextInputTableViewCell *)cell {
NSIndexPath *indexPath = [self.tableView indexPathForCell:cell];
[UIView performWithoutAnimation:^{
[self.tableView moveRowAtIndexPath:indexPath toIndexPath:indexPath];
}];
CGFloat contentOffsetY = cell.frame.origin.y - cell.lastRelativeFrameOriginY;
self.tableView.contentOffset = CGPointMake(self.tableView.contentOffset.x, contentOffsetY);
CGRect caretRect = [cell.textView caretRectForPosition:cell.textView.selectedTextRange.start];
caretRect = [self.tableView convertRect:caretRect fromView:cell.textView];
CGRect visibleRect = self.tableView.bounds;
visibleRect.origin.y += self.tableView.contentInset.top;
visibleRect.size.height -= self.tableView.contentInset.top + self.tableView.contentInset.bottom;
BOOL res = CGRectContainsRect(visibleRect, caretRect);
if (!res) {
caretRect.size.height += 5;
[self.tableView scrollRectToVisible:caretRect animated:NO];
}
}
#end
Here minLines allows to set minimum height for the textView (to
resist height minimizing by AutoLayout with
UITableViewAutomaticDimension).
moveRowAtIndexPath:indexPath: with the same indexPath starts
tableViewCell height re-calculation and re-layout.
performWithoutAnimation: removes side-effect (tableView content
offset jumping on starting new line while typing).
It is important to preserve relativeFrameOriginY (not
contentOffsetY!) during cell update because contentSize of the
cells before the current cell could be change by autoLayout calculus
in unexpected way. It removes visual jumps on system hyphenation
while typing long words.
Note that you shouldn't set the property estimatedRowHeight! The
following doesn't work
self.tableView.estimatedRowHeight = UITableViewAutomaticDimension;
Use only tableViewDelegate method.
==========================================================================
If one doesn't mind against weak binding between tableView and tableViewCell and updating geometry of the tableView from tableViewCell, it is possible to upgrade TextInputTableViewCell class above:
#interface TextInputTableViewCell : UITableViewCell
#property (nonatomic, weak) id<TextInputTableViewCellDelegate> delegate;
#property (nonatomic, weak) UITableView *tableView;
#property (nonatomic, readonly) UITextView *textView;
#property (nonatomic) NSInteger minLines;
#end
#import "TextInputTableViewCell.h"
#interface TextInputTableViewCell () <UITextViewDelegate> {
NSLayoutConstraint *_heightConstraint;
CGFloat _lastRelativeFrameOriginY;
}
#property (nonatomic) UITextView *textView;
#end
#implementation TextInputTableViewCell
- (id)initWithStyle:(UITableViewCellStyle)style reuseIdentifier:(NSString *)reuseIdentifier {
self = [super initWithStyle:style reuseIdentifier:reuseIdentifier];
if (self) {
self.selectionStyle = UITableViewCellSelectionStyleNone;
_textView = [UITextView new];
_textView.translatesAutoresizingMaskIntoConstraints = NO;
_textView.delegate = self;
_textView.scrollEnabled = NO;
_textView.font = CELL_REG_FONT;
_textView.textContainer.lineFragmentPadding = 0.0;
_textView.textContainerInset = UIEdgeInsetsZero;
[self.contentView addSubview:_textView];
[self.contentView addConstraints: [NSLayoutConstraint constraintsWithVisualFormat:#"H:|-[view]-|" options:nil metrics:nil views:#{#"view": _textView}]];
[self.contentView addConstraints: [NSLayoutConstraint constraintsWithVisualFormat:#"V:|-[view]-|" options:nil metrics:nil views:#{#"view": _textView}]];
_heightConstraint = [NSLayoutConstraint constraintWithItem: _textView
attribute: NSLayoutAttributeHeight
relatedBy: NSLayoutRelationGreaterThanOrEqual
toItem: nil
attribute: NSLayoutAttributeNotAnAttribute
multiplier: 0.0
constant: (_textView.font.lineHeight + 15)];
_heightConstraint.priority = UILayoutPriorityRequired - 1;
[_textView addConstraint:_heightConstraint];
}
return self;
}
- (void)prepareForReuse {
[super prepareForReuse];
self.minLines = 1;
self.tableView = nil;
}
- (void)setMinLines:(NSInteger)minLines {
_heightConstraint.constant = minLines * _textView.font.lineHeight + 15;
}
- (BOOL)textView:(UITextView *)textView shouldChangeTextInRange:(NSRange)range replacementText:(NSString *)text {
_lastRelativeFrameOriginY = self.frame.origin.y - self.tableView.contentOffset.y;
return YES;
}
- (void)textViewDidChange:(UITextView *)textView {
NSIndexPath *indexPath = [self.tableView indexPathForCell:self];
if (indexPath == nil) return;
[UIView performWithoutAnimation:^{
[self.tableView moveRowAtIndexPath:indexPath toIndexPath:indexPath];
}];
CGFloat contentOffsetY = self.frame.origin.y - _lastRelativeFrameOriginY;
self.tableView.contentOffset = CGPointMake(self.tableView.contentOffset.x, contentOffsetY);
CGRect caretRect = [self.textView caretRectForPosition:self.textView.selectedTextRange.start];
caretRect = [self.tableView convertRect:caretRect fromView:self.textView];
CGRect visibleRect = self.tableView.bounds;
visibleRect.origin.y += self.tableView.contentInset.top;
visibleRect.size.height -= self.tableView.contentInset.top + self.tableView.contentInset.bottom;
BOOL res = CGRectContainsRect(visibleRect, caretRect);
if (!res) {
caretRect.size.height += 5;
[self.tableView scrollRectToVisible:caretRect animated:NO];
}
}
#end
Put UILabel behind your UITextView.
Use this answer: https://stackoverflow.com/a/36054679/6681462 to UILabel you created
Give them same constraints and fonts
Set them same text;
Your cell's height will calculate by UILabel's content, but all text will be showed by TextField.
UITextView *txtDescLandscape=[[UITextView alloc] initWithFrame:CGRectMake(2,20,310,2)];
txtDescLandscape.editable =NO;
txtDescLandscape.textAlignment =UITextAlignmentLeft;
[txtDescLandscape setFont:[UIFont fontWithName:#"ArialMT" size:15]];
txtDescLandscape.text =[objImage valueForKey:#"imgdescription"];
txtDescLandscape.text =[txtDescLandscape.text stringByTrimmingCharactersInSet:[NSCharacterSet whitespaceAndNewlineCharacterSet]];
[txtDescLandscape sizeToFit];
[headerView addSubview:txtDescLandscape];
CGRect txtViewlandscpframe = txtDescLandscape.frame;
txtViewlandscpframe.size.height = txtDescLandscape.contentSize.height;
txtDescLandscape.frame = txtViewlandscpframe;
i think this way you can count the height of your text view and then resize your tableview cell according to that height so that you can show full text on cell
Swift version
func textViewHeightForAttributedText(text: NSAttributedString, andWidth width: CGFloat) -> CGFloat {
let calculationView = UITextView()
calculationView.attributedText = text
let size = calculationView.sizeThatFits(CGSize(width: width, height: CGFloat.max))
return size.height
}
If you want to automatically adjust UITableViewCell's height based on the height of the inner UITextView's height. See my answer here: https://stackoverflow.com/a/45890087/1245231
The solution is quite simple and should work since iOS 7. Make sure that the Scrolling Enabled option is turned off for the UITextView inside the UITableViewCell in the StoryBoard.
Then in your UITableViewController's viewDidLoad() set the tableView.rowHeight = UITableViewAutomaticDimension and tableView.estimatedRowHeight > 0 such as:
override func viewDidLoad() {
super.viewDidLoad()
tableView.rowHeight = UITableViewAutomaticDimension
tableView.estimatedRowHeight = 44.0
}
That's it. UITableViewCell's height will be automatically adjusted based on the inner UITextView's height.
For iOS 8 and above you can just use
your_tablview.estimatedrowheight= minheight you want
your_tableview.rowheight=UItableviewautomaticDimension

How programmatically move a UIScrollView to focus in a control above keyboard?

I have 6 UITextFields on my UIScrollView. Now, I can scroll by user request. But when the keyboard appear, some textfields are hidden.
That is not user-friendly.
How scroll programmatically the view so I get sure the keyboard not hide the textfield?
Here's what worked for me. Having an instance variable that holds the value of the UIScrollView's offset before the view is adjusted for the keyboard so you can restore the previous state after the UITextField returns:
//header
#interface TheViewController : UIViewController <UITextFieldDelegate> {
CGPoint svos;
}
//implementation
- (void)textFieldDidBeginEditing:(UITextField *)textField {
svos = scrollView.contentOffset;
CGPoint pt;
CGRect rc = [textField bounds];
rc = [textField convertRect:rc toView:scrollView];
pt = rc.origin;
pt.x = 0;
pt.y -= 60;
[scrollView setContentOffset:pt animated:YES];
}
- (BOOL)textFieldShouldReturn:(UITextField *)textField {
[scrollView setContentOffset:svos animated:YES];
[textField resignFirstResponder];
return YES;
}
Finally, a simple fix:
UIScrollView* v = (UIScrollView*) self.view ;
CGRect rc = [textField bounds];
rc = [textField convertRect:rc toView:v];
rc.origin.x = 0 ;
rc.origin.y -= 60 ;
rc.size.height = 400;
[self.scroll scrollRectToVisible:rc animated:YES];
Now I think is only combine this with the link above and is set!
I've put together a universal, drop-in UIScrollView and UITableView subclass that takes care of moving all text fields within it out of the way of the keyboard.
When the keyboard is about to appear, the subclass will find the subview that's about to be edited, and adjust its frame and content offset to make sure that view is visible, with an animation to match the keyboard pop-up. When the keyboard disappears, it restores its prior size.
It should work with basically any setup, either a UITableView-based interface, or one consisting of views placed manually.
Here it is.
(For google: TPKeyboardAvoiding, TPKeyboardAvoidingScrollView, TPKeyboardAvoidingCollectionView.)
Editor's note: TPKeyboardAvoiding seems to be continually updated and fresh, as of 2014.
If you set the delegate of your text fields to a controller object in your program, you can have that object implement the textFieldDidBeginEditing: and textFieldShouldReturn: methods. The first method can then be used to scroll to your text field and the second method can be used to scroll back.
You can find code I have used for this in my blog: Sliding UITextViews around to avoid the keyboard. I didn't test this code for text views in a UIScrollView but it should work.
simple and best
- (void)textFieldDidBeginEditing:(UITextField *)textField
{
// self.scrlViewUI.contentOffset = CGPointMake(0, textField.frame.origin.y);
[_scrlViewUI setContentOffset:CGPointMake(0,textField.center.y-90) animated:YES];
tes=YES;
[self viewDidLayoutSubviews];
}
The answers posted so far didn't work for me as I've a quite deep nested structure of UIViews. Also, the I had the problem that some of those answers were working only on certain device orientations.
Here's my solution, which will hopefully make you waste some less time on this.
My UIViewTextView derives from UIView, is a UITextView delegate and adds a UITextView after having read some parameters from an XML file for that UITextView (that XML part is left out here for clarity).
Here's the private interface definition:
#import "UIViewTextView.h"
#import <CoreGraphics/CoreGraphics.h>
#import <CoreGraphics/CGColor.h>
#interface UIViewTextView (/**/) {
#private
UITextView *tf;
/*
* Current content scroll view
* position and frame
*/
CGFloat currentScrollViewPosition;
CGFloat currentScrollViewHeight;
CGFloat kbHeight;
CGFloat kbTop;
/*
* contentScrollView is the UIScrollView
* that contains ourselves.
*/
UIScrollView contentScrollView;
}
#end
In the init method I have to register the event handlers:
#implementation UIViewTextView
- (id) initWithScrollView:(UIScrollView*)scrollView {
self = [super init];
if (self) {
contentScrollView = scrollView;
// ...
tf = [[UITextView alloc] initWithFrame:CGRectMake(0, 0, 241, 31)];
// ... configure tf and fetch data for it ...
tf.delegate = self;
// ...
NSNotificationCenter *nc = [NSNotificationCenter defaultCenter];
[nc addObserver:self selector:#selector(keyboardWasShown:) name: UIKeyboardWillShowNotification object:nil];
[nc addObserver:self selector:#selector(keyboardWasHidden:) name: UIKeyboardWillHideNotification object:nil];
[self addSubview:tf];
}
return(self);
}
Once that's done, we need to handle the keyboard show event. This gets called before the textViewBeginEditing is called, so we can use it to find out some properties of the keyboard. In essence, we want to know the height of the keyboard. This, unfortunately, needs to be taken from its width property in landscape mode:
-(void)keyboardWasShown:(NSNotification*)aNotification {
NSDictionary* info = [aNotification userInfo];
CGRect kbRect = [[info objectForKey:UIKeyboardFrameBeginUserInfoKey] CGRectValue];
CGSize kbSize = kbRect.size;
CGRect screenRect = [[UIScreen mainScreen] bounds];
CGFloat sWidth = screenRect.size.width;
CGFloat sHeight = screenRect.size.height;
UIInterfaceOrientation orientation = [[UIApplication sharedApplication] statusBarOrientation];
if ((orientation == UIDeviceOrientationPortrait)
||(orientation == UIDeviceOrientationPortraitUpsideDown)) {
kbHeight = kbSize.height;
kbTop = sHeight - kbHeight;
} else {
//Note that the keyboard size is not oriented
//so use width property instead
kbHeight = kbSize.width;
kbTop = sWidth - kbHeight;
}
Next, we need to actually scroll around when we start editing. We do this here:
- (void) textViewDidBeginEditing:(UITextView *)textView {
/*
* Memorize the current scroll position
*/
currentScrollViewPosition = contentScrollView.contentOffset.y;
/*
* Memorize the current scroll view height
*/
currentScrollViewHeight = contentScrollView.frame.size.height;
// My top position
CGFloat myTop = [self convertPoint:self.bounds.origin toView:[UIApplication sharedApplication].keyWindow.rootViewController.view].y;
// My height
CGFloat myHeight = self.frame.size.height;
// My bottom
CGFloat myBottom = myTop + myHeight;
// Eventual overlap
CGFloat overlap = myBottom - kbTop;
/*
* If there's no overlap, there's nothing to do.
*/
if (overlap < 0) {
return;
}
/*
* Calculate the new height
*/
CGRect crect = contentScrollView.frame;
CGRect nrect = CGRectMake(crect.origin.x, crect.origin.y, crect.size.width, currentScrollViewHeight + overlap);
/*
* Set the new height
*/
[contentScrollView setFrame:nrect];
/*
* Set the new scroll position
*/
CGPoint npos;
npos.x = contentScrollView.contentOffset.x;
npos.y = contentScrollView.contentOffset.y + overlap;
[contentScrollView setContentOffset:npos animated:NO];
}
When we end editing, we do this to reset the scroll position:
- (void) textViewDidEndEditing:(UITextView *)textView {
/*
* Reset the scroll view position
*/
CGRect crect = contentScrollView.frame;
CGRect nrect = CGRectMake(crect.origin.x, crect.origin.y, crect.size.width, currentScrollViewHeight);
[contentScrollView setFrame:nrect];
/*
* Reset the scroll view height
*/
CGPoint npos;
npos.x = contentScrollView.contentOffset.x;
npos.y = currentScrollViewPosition;
[contentScrollView setContentOffset:npos animated:YES];
[tf resignFirstResponder];
// ... do something with your data ...
}
There's nothing left to do in the keyboard was hidden event handler; we leave it in anyway:
-(void)keyboardWasHidden:(NSNotification*)aNotification {
}
And that's it.
/*
// Only override drawRect: if you perform custom drawing.
// An empty implementation adversely affects performance during animation.
- (void)drawRect:(CGRect)rect
{
// Drawing code
}
*/
#end
I know this is old, but still none of the solutions above had all the fancy positioning stuff required for that "perfect" bug-free, backwards compatible and flicker-free animation.
Let me share my solution (assuming you have set up UIKeyboardWill(Show|Hide)Notification):
// Called when UIKeyboardWillShowNotification is sent
- (void)keyboardWillShow:(NSNotification*)notification
{
// if we have no view or are not visible in any window, we don't care
if (!self.isViewLoaded || !self.view.window) {
return;
}
NSDictionary *userInfo = [notification userInfo];
CGRect keyboardFrameInWindow;
[[userInfo objectForKey:UIKeyboardFrameEndUserInfoKey] getValue:&keyboardFrameInWindow];
// the keyboard frame is specified in window-level coordinates. this calculates the frame as if it were a subview of our view, making it a sibling of the scroll view
CGRect keyboardFrameInView = [self.view convertRect:keyboardFrameInWindow fromView:nil];
CGRect scrollViewKeyboardIntersection = CGRectIntersection(_scrollView.frame, keyboardFrameInView);
UIEdgeInsets newContentInsets = UIEdgeInsetsMake(0, 0, scrollViewKeyboardIntersection.size.height, 0);
// this is an old animation method, but the only one that retains compaitiblity between parameters (duration, curve) and the values contained in the userInfo-Dictionary.
[UIView beginAnimations:nil context:NULL];
[UIView setAnimationDuration:[[userInfo objectForKey:UIKeyboardAnimationDurationUserInfoKey] doubleValue]];
[UIView setAnimationCurve:[[userInfo objectForKey:UIKeyboardAnimationCurveUserInfoKey] intValue]];
_scrollView.contentInset = newContentInsets;
_scrollView.scrollIndicatorInsets = newContentInsets;
/*
* Depending on visual layout, _focusedControl should either be the input field (UITextField,..) or another element
* that should be visible, e.g. a purchase button below an amount text field
* it makes sense to set _focusedControl in delegates like -textFieldShouldBeginEditing: if you have multiple input fields
*/
if (_focusedControl) {
CGRect controlFrameInScrollView = [_scrollView convertRect:_focusedControl.bounds fromView:_focusedControl]; // if the control is a deep in the hierarchy below the scroll view, this will calculate the frame as if it were a direct subview
controlFrameInScrollView = CGRectInset(controlFrameInScrollView, 0, -10); // replace 10 with any nice visual offset between control and keyboard or control and top of the scroll view.
CGFloat controlVisualOffsetToTopOfScrollview = controlFrameInScrollView.origin.y - _scrollView.contentOffset.y;
CGFloat controlVisualBottom = controlVisualOffsetToTopOfScrollview + controlFrameInScrollView.size.height;
// this is the visible part of the scroll view that is not hidden by the keyboard
CGFloat scrollViewVisibleHeight = _scrollView.frame.size.height - scrollViewKeyboardIntersection.size.height;
if (controlVisualBottom > scrollViewVisibleHeight) { // check if the keyboard will hide the control in question
// scroll up until the control is in place
CGPoint newContentOffset = _scrollView.contentOffset;
newContentOffset.y += (controlVisualBottom - scrollViewVisibleHeight);
// make sure we don't set an impossible offset caused by the "nice visual offset"
// if a control is at the bottom of the scroll view, it will end up just above the keyboard to eliminate scrolling inconsistencies
newContentOffset.y = MIN(newContentOffset.y, _scrollView.contentSize.height - scrollViewVisibleHeight);
[_scrollView setContentOffset:newContentOffset animated:NO]; // animated:NO because we have created our own animation context around this code
} else if (controlFrameInScrollView.origin.y < _scrollView.contentOffset.y) {
// if the control is not fully visible, make it so (useful if the user taps on a partially visible input field
CGPoint newContentOffset = _scrollView.contentOffset;
newContentOffset.y = controlFrameInScrollView.origin.y;
[_scrollView setContentOffset:newContentOffset animated:NO]; // animated:NO because we have created our own animation context around this code
}
}
[UIView commitAnimations];
}
// Called when the UIKeyboardWillHideNotification is sent
- (void)keyboardWillHide:(NSNotification*)notification
{
// if we have no view or are not visible in any window, we don't care
if (!self.isViewLoaded || !self.view.window) {
return;
}
NSDictionary *userInfo = notification.userInfo;
[UIView beginAnimations:nil context:NULL];
[UIView setAnimationDuration:[[userInfo valueForKey:UIKeyboardAnimationDurationUserInfoKey] doubleValue]];
[UIView setAnimationCurve:[[userInfo valueForKey:UIKeyboardAnimationCurveUserInfoKey] intValue]];
// undo all that keyboardWillShow-magic
// the scroll view will adjust its contentOffset apropriately
_scrollView.contentInset = UIEdgeInsetsZero;
_scrollView.scrollIndicatorInsets = UIEdgeInsetsZero;
[UIView commitAnimations];
}
You may check it out: https://github.com/michaeltyson/TPKeyboardAvoiding (I used that sample for my apps). It is working so well. I hope that helps you.
Actually, here's a full tutorial on using TPKeyboardAvoiding, which may help someone
(1) download the zip file from the github link. add these four files to your Xcode project:
(2) build your beautiful form in IB. add a UIScrollView. sit the form items INSIDE the scroll view. (Note - extremely useful tip regarding interface builder: https://stackoverflow.com/a/16952902/294884)
(3) click on the scroll view. then at the top right, third button, you'll see the word "UIScrollView". using copy and paste, change it to "TPKeyboardAvoidingScrollView"
(4) that's it. put the app in the app store, and bill your client.
(Also, just click on the Inspector tab of the scroll view. You may prefer to turn on or off bouncing and the scroll bars - your preference.)
Personal comment - I strongly recommend using scroll view (or collection view) for input forms, in almost all cases. do not use a table view. it's problematic for many reasons. and quite simply, it's incredibly easier to use a scroll view. just lay it out any way you want. it is 100% wysiwyg in interface builder. hope it helps
This is my code, hope it will help you. It work ok in case you have many textfield
CGPoint contentOffset;
bool isScroll;
- (void)textFieldDidBeginEditing:(UITextField *)textField {
contentOffset = self.myScroll.contentOffset;
CGPoint newOffset;
newOffset.x = contentOffset.x;
newOffset.y = contentOffset.y;
//check push return in keyboar
if(!isScroll){
//180 is height of keyboar
newOffset.y += 180;
isScroll=YES;
}
[self.myScroll setContentOffset:newOffset animated:YES];
}
- (BOOL)textFieldShouldReturn:(UITextField *)textField{
//reset offset of content
isScroll = NO;
[self.myScroll setContentOffset:contentOffset animated:YES];
[textField endEditing:true];
return true;
}
we have a point contentOffset to save contentoffset of scrollview before keyboar show. Then we will scroll content for y about 180 (height of keyboar). when you touch return in keyboar, we will scroll content to old point(it is contentOffset). If you have many textfield, you don't touch return in keyboar but you touch another textfield, it will +180 . So we have check touch return
Use any of these,
CGPoint bottomOffset = CGPointMake(0, self.MainScrollView.contentSize.height - self.MainScrollView.bounds.size.height);
[self.MainScrollView setContentOffset:bottomOffset animated:YES];
or
[self.MainScrollView scrollRectToVisible:CGRectMake(0, self.MainScrollView.contentSize.height - self.MainScrollView.bounds.size.height-30, MainScrollView.frame.size.width, MainScrollView.frame.size.height) animated:YES];
I think it's better use keyboard notifications because you don't know if the first responder (the control with focus on) is a textField or a textView (or whatever). So juste create a category to find the first responder :
#import "UIResponder+FirstResponder.h"
static __weak id currentFirstResponder;
#implementation UIResponder (FirstResponder)
+(id)currentFirstResponder {
currentFirstResponder = nil;
[[UIApplication sharedApplication] sendAction:#selector(findFirstResponder:) to:nil from:nil forEvent:nil];
return currentFirstResponder;
}
-(void)findFirstResponder:(id)sender {
currentFirstResponder = self;
}
#end
then
-(void)keyboardWillShowNotification:(NSNotification*)aNotification{
contentScrollView.delegate=nil;
contentScrollView.scrollEnabled=NO;
contentScrollViewOriginalOffset = contentScrollView.contentOffset;
UIResponder *lc_firstResponder = [UIResponder currentFirstResponder];
if([lc_firstResponder isKindOfClass:[UIView class]]){
UIView *lc_view = (UIView *)lc_firstResponder;
CGRect lc_frame = [lc_view convertRect:lc_view.bounds toView:contentScrollView];
CGPoint lc_point = CGPointMake(0, lc_frame.origin.y-lc_frame.size.height);
[contentScrollView setContentOffset:lc_point animated:YES];
}
}
Eventually disable the scroll and set the delegate to nil then restore it to avoid some actions during the edition of the first responder. Like james_womack said, keep the original offset to restore it in a keyboardWillHideNotification method.
-(void)keyboardWillHideNotification:(NSNotification*)aNotification{
contentScrollView.delegate=self;
contentScrollView.scrollEnabled=YES;
[contentScrollView setContentOffset:contentScrollViewOriginalOffset animated:YES];
}
In Swift 1.2+ do something like this:
class YourViewController: UIViewController, UITextFieldDelegate {
override func viewDidLoad() {
super.viewDidLoad()
_yourTextField.delegate = self //make sure you have the delegate set to this view controller for each of your textFields so textFieldDidBeginEditing can be called for each one
...
}
func textFieldDidBeginEditing(textField: UITextField) {
var point = textField.convertPoint(textField.frame.origin, toView: _yourScrollView)
point.x = 0.0 //if your textField does not have an origin at 0 for x and you don't want your scrollView to shift left and right but rather just up and down
_yourScrollView.setContentOffset(point, animated: true)
}
func textFieldDidEndEditing(textField: UITextField) {
//Reset scrollview once done editing
scrollView.setContentOffset(CGPoint.zero, animated: true)
}
}