This is a real n00b question but i am very new at this and have been looking for an answer and also read the reference as i am trying to work with UITextView.
I want to add quite a lot of text into a view and i want it to be scrollable.
I have created the UITextView in IB, added text via "self.myTextView.text = #"...", which works. However i am not able to scroll down and see all text. I see only the amount of text that fits in the view i have.
I wonder if someone nice could help me and give an example/hint how to get the UITextView scrollable.
Thank you.
If it's static text and you'd like some formatting, I recommend using a UIWebView. You can give it a variety of files types, and edit the file easily.
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I want to add text on image, not on a specific point but want to move it anywhere on the image. just like many photo editing apps. anybody know how to do this?
You can set label on UIImageView and then you can write whatever you want to write.
https://github.com/kcandr/IQLabelView
This one is the best approach and it worked fine for me by making the required changes to the code.
In the app I am currently developing, I have to implement a screen which allows the user to ask a question. This screen contains a UIImageView next to the UITextView, taking up a portion of the space. It looks like the below image.
My question is, how can I wrap the UITextView text around the UIImageView, so that the text won't be in a block, but flowing around the UIImageView?
Thanks in advanced.
I don't think you can do this, unless your UITextView was a rich text or HTML editor, with the image embedded inside it. Basically what you're asking for is a non-rectangular UITextView. To the best of my knowledge, that is impossible in iOS, unless you were to create something brand new from scratch, which would be extremely complex. I have seen plenty of UILabel-style controls that can display HTML-like text, but not edit it.
EDIT: this might help: http://www.cocoanetics.com/2011/01/rich-text-editing-on-ios/
Unfortunately that's not a trivial issue as the UITextField does not provide any functionality that would be useful here.
However what you could do is to implement your own text view using UITextInput (for text input) and Core Text (for text display) and then define the drawing rectangle for Core Text (you can read more on Core Text here) from a custom CGPath that would exclude the images frame.
It does sound a bit complex (insane, perhaps), however as (nearly always) there are open source solutions that already found a solution. The OmniGroup framework contains custom text input controls based on Core Text and UITextInput. They're licensed under MIT License (well, moreless) so you should be just fine.
I would like to programmatically Add a UIScrollView in a UIAlertView.
I found a way to do that but I was not successful in adding text to this UIScrollView (using the same code as in here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4SG0CAAl5u0).
is there an alternative to do that? the text I have is very long and I need people to be able to scroll but without being able to edit it.
I know that the Apple user interface guideline does not recommend long text in alerts (although detecting WiFi networks does that) but I have no choice but doing it
If you add a large text in UIAlertView it automatically becomes scrollable.
You don't have to do any thing to make it scrollable.
Here is a control on github that has a tabelView inside it. If you need to customize beyond what Inder suggests, you might want to look at the code and replace the tableView with a scrollView.
Also, there are other controls at cocoacontrols.com that might help you directly or give you some ideas.
I want to do what is described here. I know I am kinda repeating the question but that post does not have an answer. I have searched the net and didn't find anything I could understand either.
So, here is my problem: I want to create an NSTextField subclass that animates text (in the way described by the other post) when the text is too long to be completely displayed. I have absolutely no idea on how to do this, so some sample code would be nice for complicated answers. If it helps, I only want to use this to animate labels (text not selectable nor editable). Thanks.
It seems that this SO entry is close to what you need. It is not based on a NSTextField but on a NSView, but the result is what you are looking for and it should note be hard to modify.
Those links should show you the way :
Making uitextview scroll programmatically
Auto Scrolling UITextView Problem
They talk about iPhone classes, but I'm sure you will be able to adapt them for NSTextField.
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.