Question

As it is set up now, I have two UITextViews inside of a UIScrollView. The point of this is that the UITextViews themselves don’t scroll, they just get larger (their contentsize) as more text is added. The UIScrollView handles all of the scrolling up and down of the view regardless of how much text there is (think similar to Mail.app where the subject view is above the message view, etc). That said, I’ve ran into a problem now. When I programmatically add text to my UITextView (in this code, bodyText), the UIScrollView automatically scrolls to the bottom for some reason.

To add the text I just do:

NSRange selectedRange = [bodyText selectedRange];
NSString *selectedText = [bodyText.text substringWithRange:selectedRange];
bodyText.text = [bodyText.text stringByReplacingCharactersInRange:selectedRange withString:[NSString stringWithFormat:@"<b>%@</b>", selectedText]];

So, for instance, if I had 2000 pixels vertically of text and was currently scrolled to position 400 and then added text somewhere around there, the UIScrollView would then go all the way down to 2000.

I’ve tried to stop it via subclassing UISCrollView and overriding -setContentOffset, but that freezes all scrolling then.

My question is, why does it scroll all the way to the bottom in the first place? The text is added when the user clicks a button somewhere else on the screen, and the scrolling has nothing to do with any finger drags or anything.

Answer 1

In Scroll View Programming Guide you get:

Making a rectangle visible

It is also possible to scroll a
rectangular area so that it is
visible. This is especially useful
when an application needs to display a
control that is currently outside the
visible area into the visible view.
The scrollRectToVisible:animated:
method scrolls the specified rectangle
so that it is just visible inside the
scroll view. If the animated parameter
is YES, the rectangle is scrolled into
view at a constant pace. As with
setContentOffset:animated:, if
animation is disabled, the delegate is
sent a single scrollViewDidScroll:
message. If animation is enabled, the
delegate is sent a series of
scrollViewDidScroll: messages as
animation progresses. In the case of
scrollRectToVisible:animated: the
scroll view’s tracking and dragging
properties are also NO.

If animation is enabled for
scrollRectToVisible:animated:, the
delegate receives a
scrollViewDidEndScrollingAnimation:
message, providing notification that
the scroll view has arrived at the
specified location and animation is
complete.

So maybe you can use this functionality to lock the visibility on your UITextView.