Question

All I want to have is a full-screen simple text editor. However, I don’t want the scrolling component, but rather let the user flick through the pages (instead of scrolling). So I need to import or open a TXT and then format it by braking it down (e.g. by dividing its contents to 10 lines per screen/page).

My question is how I will display the txt? UITextView is scrollable (even though I can disable this in IB)… I did not find any method for UIWebView to let it format my contents on different ‘pages’ or screens.

Where will I need to start? Ideally I’d need some sample code. All the samples for UIWebView do not tell me anything about how to format editable text on several pages.

So all I really want is an UITextView which is not scrollable and opens up a new page/screen if I run out of space on the first page/screen.

Thanks for any help to get me started.

Answer 1

first thing first …… there is no particular method to achieve this

1.You need to break your single string into multiple strings, to do that you can use

  int pageNumber; // suppose this keep track of on what page you are
  int count; //suppose this keep track of how long string your one screen support
  NSString* completeString; //suppose this is your string
  NSRange range = NSMakeRange(pageNumber * count, count);
  NSString* temp = [completeString substringWithRange:range];

2.Now instead of using UITextView (if you don’t want user interaction ) you should use UILable
just change the property of UILabel (this one is of your interest)

UILabel* myLabel; //suppose this is that label
myLabel.numberOfLines = 0; //this will chage your label to go multyline.