Word-Wrap UITextView

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Word-Wrap UITextView

Ok, I need to make UITextView Autowordwrap for an iPhone app

I'm not using IB so is there a way to do this is code?

Thanks in advance.

Macbook Pro late 1008, Mac OS X (10.5.7), For iPhone

Posted on May 28, 2009 2:34 PM

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Answer 1

RayNewbie

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May 28, 2009 3:50 PM in response to Duykur

I'm not sure if you're asking how to make an instance of UITextView in code, or how to use code to turn on word wrap. Word wrap is the default, and atm I don't know any way to turn it off. So I'll assume you just want to create and display a text view control:


@interface MyViewController : UIViewController {
 UITextView *myTextView;
}
@property (nonatomic, retain) UITextView *myTextView;
@end
#import "MyViewController.h"
@implementation MyViewController
@synthesize myTextView;
- (void)viewDidLoad {
 [super viewDidLoad];
 CGRect frame = CGRectMake(20, 20, 280, 200);
 UITextView *aTextView = [[UITextView alloc] initWithFrame:frame];
 self.myTextView = aTextView;
 [aTextView release];
 [self.view addSubview:myTextView];
}
- (void)dealloc {
 [myTextView release];
 [super dealloc];
}
@end

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Duykur Author

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May 28, 2009 4:11 PM in response to Duykur

Ok, after looking into this further, i realize my problem is with NSString as the code i used is

firstView.text = [NSString stringWithFormat: @"%@", item];

Is there a way i can force new line after certain amount of characters or make this code wordwrap

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K T

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May 28, 2009 4:35 PM in response to Duykur

I put the content into a text editor (example TextWrangler) and establish breaks there and then dump that into my app source. Once you have a formatted text break in your source, you can use it over and over via copy/paste.

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RayNewbie

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May 29, 2009 11:13 PM in response to K T

Do we see any difference between this:

Ok, I need to make UITextView Autowordwrap for an iPhone app

and this:

How can I insert hard line breaks into UITextView text?

There's no difference, right? Whenever I see "Autowordwrap" I think "\n". What else would I think? I love this place!

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K T

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May 30, 2009 8:41 AM in response to RayNewbie

You're right that works (for textview content I believe), but that markup isn't necessarily global. Not that my suggestion is either, but hey 🙂

Try '\n' in a plist string...it has nil effect for me.

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Duykur Author

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May 31, 2009 8:08 PM in response to K T

I already tried /n, it just appears as a large space on the screen, without creating a new line.

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K T

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May 31, 2009 8:57 PM in response to Duykur

Duykur wrote:
I already tried /n

See Ray's comment above. Try \n instead...

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Duykur Author

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Jun 1, 2009 5:57 PM in response to K T

\n also doesn't work.

My code looks like this

self.myArray= [NSArray arrayWithObjects:
@"I don’t have pet peeves — I have major psychotic hatreds! - George Carlin",
@"Think of how stupid the average person is, \n and realize half of them are stupider than that. - George Carlin",
@"Swimming is not a sport.\n Swimming is a way to keep from drowning. That’s just common sense! - George Carlin", nil];

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K T

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Jun 1, 2009 6:29 PM in response to Duykur

Duykur wrote:
\n also doesn't work.

Have you tried my suggestion in my first comment above...

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Duykur Author

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Jun 1, 2009 6:43 PM in response to K T

I'm kind of new to coding, and i don't fully understand how to do that. Sorry for my ignorance

or did you mean the text editor one, yes i tried that, doesn't seem to work

Message was edited by: Duykur

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Answer 11

K T

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Jun 1, 2009 7:01 PM in response to Duykur

You're fine, no worries 🙂

Have you confirmed the boundaries of your text view? Might try pushing them in arbitrarily to confirm you're bumping them, as an example.

Not sure what else we can suggest, sorry.

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