UITextView wraps text when built with iOS 7 SDK

Question

I have a UITextView inside a UIScrollView that worked perfectly fine on iOS 6 built from xcode 4.x, however now building with

Answer 1

try using:

[textView.text boundingRectWithSize:CGSizeMake(txtFrame.size.width, CGFLOAT_MAX)
                           options:NSStringDrawingUsesLineFragmentOrigin | NSStringDrawingUsesFontLeading
                           attributes:[NSDictionary dictionaryWithObjectsAndKeys:textView.font,NSFontAttributeName, nil] context:nil];

The string measuring seems pretty buggy. This is the only option combination that gives the right size, for the testing I have done.

I'm using the following code with success in iOS7 (it's a UITextField with a minimum and maximum height. When the text's height get larger then MAX_HEIGHT_MESSAGE_TEXTBOX, scrollbars appears in the UITextField).

const float MAX_HEIGHT_MESSAGE_TEXTBOX = 80;
const float MIN_HEIGHT_MESSAGE_TEXTBOX = 30;


- (void)setFrameToTextSize:(CGRect)txtFrame textView:(UITextView *)textView
{

    if(txtFrame.size.height > MAX_HEIGHT_MESSAGE_TEXTBOX)
    {
        //OK, the new frame is to large. Let's use scroll
        txtFrame.size.height = MAX_HEIGHT_MESSAGE_TEXTBOX;
        textView.scrollEnabled = YES;
        [textView scrollRangeToVisible:NSMakeRange([textView.text length], 0)];
    }
    else
    {
        if (textView.frame.size.height < MIN_HEIGHT_MESSAGE_TEXTBOX) {
             //OK, the new frame is to small. Let's set minimum size
            txtFrame.size.height = MIN_HEIGHT_MESSAGE_TEXTBOX;
        }
        //no need for scroll
        textView.scrollEnabled = NO;
    }
    //set the frame
    textView.frame = txtFrame;
}

- (void)setframeToTextSize:(UITextView *)textView animated:(BOOL)animated
{
    //get current height
    CGRect txtFrame = textView.frame;

    //calculate height needed with selected font. Note the options.
    //append a new line to make space for the cursor after user hit the return key
    txtFrame.size.height =[[NSString stringWithFormat:@"%@\n ",textView.text]
                           boundingRectWithSize:CGSizeMake(txtFrame.size.width, CGFLOAT_MAX)
                           options:NSStringDrawingUsesLineFragmentOrigin | NSStringDrawingUsesFontLeading
                           attributes:[NSDictionary dictionaryWithObjectsAndKeys:textView.font,NSFontAttributeName, nil] context:nil].size.height;

    if (animated) {
        //set the new frame, animated for a more nice transition
        [UIView animateWithDuration:0.2 delay:0.0 options:UIViewAnimationOptionCurveEaseOut |UIViewAnimationOptionAllowAnimatedContent animations:^{
            [self setFrameToTextSize:txtFrame textView:textView];
        } completion:nil];
    }
    else
    {
        [self setFrameToTextSize:txtFrame textView:textView];
    }
}

- (void)textViewDidChange:(UITextView *)textView
{
    [self setframeToTextSize:textView animated:YES];
}

EDIT

When the string measuring is correct, you might need to change the lineBreakModeon the UITextView's textContainer. (NSTextContainer is a new class in iOS7, containing information about how text should be laid out):

textView.textContainer.lineBreakMode = NSLineBreakByCharWrapping; // default is NSLineBreakByWordWrapping 

Good luck!