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NSTextContainer is an iOS class that defines a region in which text stored in an NSTextStorage object is displayed using an NSLayoutManager object.

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UITextView textContainer exclusion path fails if full width and positioned at top of textContainer

In iOS 8, I'm trying to add a UIImageView as a subview of a UITextView, similar to what's shown here - but with the text below the image. I want to do it using an exclusion path because on other devices, I might position the image differently…
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NSTextContainer exclusionPaths freezes app and uses 99% CPU on iOS 7.1 - workaround?

I'm trying to exclude a square in a UITextView using NSTextContainer's excludePaths, like so: NSTextStorage* textStorage = [[NSTextStorage alloc] initWithAttributedString:attributedString]; NSLayoutManager *layoutManager = [NSLayoutManager…
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Using a CALayer to highlight text in a UITextView which spans multiple lines

This is a continuation of Getting CGRect for text in a UITextView for the purpose of highlighting with a CALayer. I'm having trouble with getting the correct rectangle for the ranges in each line fragment. NSString* searchString = @"Returns the…
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Sequential selection among multiple NSTextViews

I have a bunch of NSTextViews that I would like to share a single selection. I basically want this to behave like selecting text on a web page, where there are multiple text views but you can drag to sequentially select text among them. I found this…
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NSLayoutManager with multiple NSTextContainers causes UITextViews to not be selectable/editable

I am trying to achieve a multi page text editing layout, as in Pages, MS Word, ... . On OS X I can achieve this by creating one NSLayoutManager with one NSTextStorage for multiple NSTextViews. Each NSTextView has its own NSTextContainer. See below…
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Get index of character in UILabel from tap

I'd like to get the index for the tapped character on a UILabel. I've subclassed a UILabel. In my awakeFromNib() I have this: layoutManager = NSLayoutManager() textStorage = NSTextStorage(attributedString: self.attributedText) …
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What is Causing this Unwanted Content Inset with UITextView in iOS 8 (not there in iOS 7)?

I've been creating UITextViews programatically, using auto layout, in iOS 7. Something like this: _textView = [UITextView new]; _textView.translatesAutoresizingMaskIntoConstraints = NO; _textView.font = [UIFont…
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Getting CGRect for text in a UITextView for the purpose of highlighting with a CALayer

I am trying to draw a transparent CALayer in a UITextView in order to highlight matched text in a search. I've figured out the correct way to do this, but still haven't found the correct coordinates. I need to find the origin of the text container.…
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Update attributedText on a dequeued cell UITextView make the app freeze

I'm currently stuck down a big wall... I'm using custom UITableViewCell containing UITextView containing custom NSTextAttachment images. Each NSTextAttachment overrides the - (CGRect)attachmentBoundsForTextContainer:(NSTextContainer *)textContainer…
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NSLineBreakByTruncatingTail on UITextView removing new line breaks

I have a UITextView with attributedText that has multiple new line breaks included in its attributed string. NSMutableAttributedString *info = [[NSMutableAttributedString alloc] initWithString:@""]; NSAttributedString *title = [[NSAttributedString…
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In my programmatically instantiated UITextView (initialized with NSTextContainer) the .text property is always nil

[UPDATED w/ SOLUTION and WORKING CODE in bottom section] In -viewDidLoad I alloc, initWithFrame: Add myTextView to subView Set some basic properties (alignment, background color, text color, etc) Set default text The .text does not appear.…
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iOS UITextView's textContainer Text Cut Off When Resizing

I have a UITextView that I am resizing using a UIPinchGestureRecognizer: @IBAction func handlePinch(recognizer : UIPinchGestureRecognizer) { if let view = recognizer.view { view.transform = CGAffineTransformScale(view.transform, …
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Setting a UITextView exclusion path dynamically while scrolling up causes an infinite loop

I have a UITextView in a UIViewController. In front of that UITextView is another UIViewController containing two buttons. The two buttons are static and they obscure the text in the text view. What I am trying to achieve is an exclusion path on…
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UITextView's NSTextContainer wrong position on text view height NSLayoutConstraint change

I have subclassed UITextView to make it return an intrinsic content size like this: - (void) layoutSubviews { [super layoutSubviews]; if (!CGSizeEqualToSize(self.bounds.size, [self intrinsicContentSize])) { [self…
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get text in NSTextContainer

I have a NSOrderedSet of paragraphs with NSString content. Looping through all, a large string is created and given NSTextStorage. But with that all the paragraphs are lost. The code below allows me to count the pages and present the content in…
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