How to change the starting cursor position inside UITextView

Question

I have a uitextview which become the first responder on viewload. but i want to change the position of the cursor of the uitextview at certain position in x for the first 2 line only.

mainy delegate methods of uitextview from google but none work @d4Rk — Gaurav Parmar, Jun 20 '15 at 09:49
Can you show us some code, and whats not working? Or what you expect it to do. — d4Rk, Jun 20 '15 at 10:05
I just want to do it like facebook screens for status update in android — Gaurav Parmar, Jun 20 '15 at 10:57

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Jun 20 '15 at 13:54

Maybe you could use a UITextKit (a very good tutorial).

For example to have a rounded text you can use something like:

UIBezierPath* exclusionPath = [UIBezierPath bezierPathWithOvalInRect:yourTextView.bounds];
exclusionPath = [exclusionPath bezierPathByReversingPath];
yourTextView.textContainer.exclusionPaths = @[exclusionPath];

score 1 · Answer 2 · edited May 23 '17 at 12:01

Have you tried following solutions ?

Controlling cursor position in a UITextField is complicated because so many abstractions are involved with input boxes and calculating positions. However, it's certainly possible. You can use the member function setSelectedTextRange:

[input setSelectedTextRange:[input textRangeFromPosition:start toPosition:end]];

Here's a function which takes a range and selects the texts in that range. If you just want to place the cursor at a certain index, just use a range with length 0:

+ (void)selectTextForInput:(UITextField *)input atRange:(NSRange)range {
    UITextPosition *start = [input positionFromPosition:[input beginningOfDocument] 
                                                 offset:range.location];
    UITextPosition *end = [input positionFromPosition:start
                                               offset:range.length];
    [input setSelectedTextRange:[input textRangeFromPosition:start toPosition:end]];
}

For example, to place the cursor at idx in the UITextField input:

    [Helpers selectTextForInput:input 
                        atRange:NSMakeRange(idx, 0)];

Source: https://stackoverflow.com/a/11532718/914111

Have not tested due to some busy so please let us know wether it is working or not (May have issue in IOS8.0)

How to change the starting cursor position inside UITextView

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