UITextView text into a text message?

cye · 08-10-2010, 01:31 PM

is it possible to import the text from a uitextview into a text message? help is appreciated, thanks!

Duncan C · 08-10-2010, 01:35 PM

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Originally Posted by cye

is it possible to import the text from a uitextview into a text message? help is appreciated, thanks!

You can get the text from a UITextView using it's text property, and then do anything you want with it, including putting it into a "text message", although I'm not sure what you mean by "text message".

cye · 08-10-2010, 01:37 PM

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Originally Posted by Duncan C

You can get the text from a UITextView using it's text property, and then do anything you want with it, including putting it into a "text message", although I'm not sure what you mean by "text message".

text message as in SMS.

Duncan C · 08-10-2010, 03:07 PM

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Originally Posted by cye

text message as in SMS.

I haven't done this, but doing some digging, it looks like you have 2 options. You can use the UIApplication openURL method to open an URL of the type sms://, but that appears to only start a message using a specified phone number. I don't see a way to specify a message body using that approach.

Alternately, you can use a new iOS 4 class, MFMessageComposeViewController. That lets you put up a dialog that prompts the user to enter a phone number and message body to send. You can pre-fill the phone number and message body with the info from your UITextField, and the user then has a chance to edit it and/or send it.

cye · 08-10-2010, 03:14 PM

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Originally Posted by Duncan C

I haven't done this, but doing some digging, it looks like you have 2 options. You can use the UIApplication openURL method to open an URL of the type sms://, but that appears to only start a message using a specified phone number. I don't see a way to specify a message body using that approach.

Alternately, you can use a new iOS 4 class, MFMessageComposeViewController. That lets you put up a dialog that prompts the user to enter a phone number and message body to send. You can pre-fill the phone number and message body with the info from your UITextField, and the user then has a chance to edit it and/or send it.

Thanks!