i want to implement Code by which i can start to insert text at any position of cursor in UITextView in iphone sdk
any idea? thank you in advance..
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The simplest way (but it won't replace selected text) is to use the insertText: method:
[textView insertText:@"some text you want to insert"];
UITextView
conforms to UITextInput
which itself conforms to UIKeyInput
.
Dan's answer is manually changing the text. It's not playing well with UITextView's UndoManager.
Actually it's very easy to insert text with UITextInput protocol API, which is supported by UITextView and UITextField.
[textView replaceRange:textView.selectedTextRange withText:insertingString];
Note: It's selectedTextRange in UITextInput protocol, rather than selectedRange
This is what I use with a custom keyboard, seems to work ok, there may be a cleaner approach, not sure.
NSRange range = myTextView.selectedRange;
NSString * firstHalfString = [myTextView.text substringToIndex:range.location];
NSString * secondHalfString = [myTextView.text substringFromIndex: range.location];
myTextView.scrollEnabled = NO; // turn off scrolling
NSString * insertingString = [NSString stringWithFormat:@"your string value here"];
myTextView.text = [NSString stringWithFormat: @"%@%@%@",
firstHalfString,
insertingString,
secondHalfString];
range.location += [insertingString length];
myTextView.selectedRange = range;
myTextView.scrollEnabled = YES; // turn scrolling back on.
Here is the Glorfindel's answer in Swift3. The text its inserting here it pulls out of the clipboard.
if let textRange = myTextView.selectedTextRange {
myTextView.replace(textRange, withText:UIPasteboard.general.string!)
}