UITextView - New line at WordWrap possible??

[manojb]

Hey guys,

Just wanna ask if there are any possibilities to add a '\n' character to the end of the line when a word wraps in a UITextView?

I am sure that RETURN ('\n') is not going to impact me on this.

--Edit--
Enter some text in UITextView. When the text view is resigning its first responder, append '\n' characters to the end of every line (the line in text view where the word wrapped) and obtain the complete content as a string.

Thanks in advance.

[manojb]

Originally Posted by manojb

Hey guys,

Just wanna ask if there are any possibilities to add a '\n' character to the end of the line when a word wraps in a UITextView?

I am sure that RETURN ('\n') is not going to impact me on this.

Thanks in advance.

I got to this much (see code). Can someone suggest me what to proceed further ?

// create the complete range of the text content
    NSRange textRange = NSMakeRange(0, [textView text].length);
    NSRange delimiter;

// every word's length variable
    NSInteger wordsLength = 0;
    
    for (wordsLength = textRange.location; wordsLength <= [textView text].length; wordsLength = delimiter.location)
    {
        NSLog(@"WordsLength - %d, maxLimit - %f, textRange - %@", wordsLength, maxLimit, NSStringFromRange(textRange));
        
        // Check if a character is right after the cursor
        unichar c = ' '; // uni-codes as 32 - blank space
        
        if(wordsLength != [textView.text length])
        {
            // get the character at the position
            c = [textView.text characterAtIndex:textRange.location];
        }
        
        // If not a character, then cursor move to the end of a word
        if(c != 32 && c != 10)
        {
            delimiter = [textView.text rangeOfCharacterFromSet:[NSCharacterSet whitespaceAndNewlineCharacterSet] options:NSLiteralSearch 
                                                    range:NSMakeRange(textRange.location, [textView.text length] - textRange.location)];
            
            if(delimiter.location == NSNotFound)
            {
                delimiter.location = [textView.text length];
            }
        }
        else if (c == 32) // for blank space character add 1 to the delimiter
        {
            delimiter.location += 1;
        }
        
        textRange = delimiter;
    }

I am trying to find at which character, the line ends (with a word wrap).

[manojb]

Originally Posted by manojb

Hey guys,

Just wanna ask if there are any possibilities to add a '\n' character to the end of the line when a word wraps in a UITextView?

I am sure that RETURN ('\n') is not going to impact me on this.

--Edit--
Enter some text in UITextView. When the text view is resigning its first responder, append '\n' characters to the end of every line (the line in text view where the word wrapped) and obtain the complete content as a string.

Thanks in advance.

Bump. anybody got ideas ??

[manojb]

This can wrap sentences (spaced words) and long (not spaced) words.. But not when a combination of both are available.

Pass YES to the flag if the content needs to be wrapped as words or NO if the content is a long word.

- (void) insertCarriageString:(NSArray*)wordsArray asWords:(BOOL)flag inView:(UITextView *)textView
{
    NSMutableString *replacedString = [NSMutableString stringWithString:@""];
    CGFloat spaceWidth = [@" " sizeWithFont:textView.font].width;
    CGFloat wordWidth = 0;
    CGFloat availableSize = textView.frame.size.width - (2 * textView.contentOffset.x);
    
    for (NSString *word in wordsArray)
    {
        wordWidth = [word sizeWithFont:textView.font].width;
        if (flag) wordWidth += spaceWidth;
        
        if (wordWidth > availableSize)
        {
            [replacedString appendString:@"\r"];
            NSLog(@"wordwidth %6.2f - available %6.2f - word %@", wordWidth, availableSize, word);
            availableSize = textView.frame.size.width - (2 * textView.contentOffset.x) - wordWidth;
            wordWidth = 0;
        }
        else
        {
            availableSize -= wordWidth;
            NSLog(@"wordwidth %6.2f - available %6.2f - word %@", wordWidth, availableSize, word);
        }
        
        [replacedString appendString:word];
        if (flag) [replacedString appendString:@" "];
    }

//    NSLog(@"replacedString - \n%@", [replacedString stringByReplacingOccurrencesOfString:@"\r" withString:@"<< NEW >>\r"]);
}