How can I display paragraph of text?

[aahmed753]

Hi everyone. I need to display bunch of text as paragraphs. I dont know the size of the text. I was thinking about the UILabel... how can i make UILabel to autoresize height to the content of the text? or is there other way to do it? thanks for your help.

[Abel]

Try UITextView

[aahmed753]

thanks, i realized it right after posting the thread. all i have to do is use UITextView and set it's editable property to NO.

However, i still have problem... the textview does not auto resize! I need it to resize to fit the content. thanks

thanks.

[Abel]

Only time I did that was in Java using font metrics and the text view's height and width properties.

[halusha]

Does [textView sizeToFit] not work?

[kgelner]

Originally Posted by aahmed753

Hi everyone. I need to display bunch of text as paragraphs. I dont know the size of the text. I was thinking about the UILabel... how can i make UILabel to autoresize height to the content of the text? or is there other way to do it? thanks for your help.

UILabel with line count of 0 and appropriate word wrapping would be another way. You just need to make sure the bounding box is large enough to hold the text you have.

[milanjansari]

Originally Posted by halusha

Does [textView sizeToFit] not work?

Thank you very much...........

Your post helped me.
That was headache for me to autoresize the label at runtime as per the contents.

Once again thank you.

[jin8k]

Sorry, I am trying to show a paragraph (bunch of texts with new lines, bullet points, etc) with UITEXTVIEW... but i don't know how to...

Any ideas?

[XCHG]

You can't do that with UITextView. You have to do those things with UIWebView.

[aom7610]

mark

[iphonetony]

Originally Posted by Abel

Try UITextView

using textview but the items inside the text view is not being saved would like the text to remain after the user logs out the app meaning using the home button. how to do

[XCHG]

Originally Posted by iphonetony

using textview but the items inside the text view is not being saved would like the text to remain after the user logs out the app meaning using the home button. how to do

You have to save your value like this:

[[NSUserDefaults standardUserDefaults] setValue:@"VALUE" forKey:@"KEY"];
  [[NSUserDefaults standardUserDefaults] synchronize];

And retrieve it like this:

NSString *Value = (NSString*) [[NSUserDefaults standardUserDefaults] valueForKey:@"KEY"];

Change @"VALUE" to the text inside your UITextView.

[NichMadl]

where would you place this code?

[NichMadl]

Originally Posted by milanjansari

Thank you very much...........

Your post helped me.
That was headache for me to autoresize the label at runtime as per the contents.

Once again thank you.

where would you place this?

[NichMadl]

where would you place this?

[sebastien]

Hi Nick, were you able to place the code properly ?