Question

I have a custom plist and wish to display it in a UITextView in an IPad.

In the plist, I want to retrieve both “QuestionTitle” and “QuestionAnswer” from each item.

The page is basically a Answer Sheet Page, a page with a UITextView which displays all questions and answers once page is loaded.

    - (void)viewDidLoad
{
    NSArray *paths = NSSearchPathForDirectoriesInDomains(NSDocumentDirectory, NSUserDomainMask, YES);
    NSString *documentsDirectory = [paths objectAtIndex:0];
    NSString *filePath = [documentsDirectory stringByAppendingPathComponent:@"DLquestions.plist"];
    NSDictionary *DLDict = [[NSDictionary alloc] initWithContentsOfFile:filePath];

Is there a way for one to populate plist details into a UITextView in a specific order line by line?

Like for example,

QuestionTitle (e.g. what is 1 + 1?)

QuestionAnswer (e.g. 2)

QuestionTitle (e.g. What is 2 + 2?)

QuestionAnswer (e.g. 4)

I have been stuck for a while now.. Please help me, Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

Create a string from your plist and display it in UITextView, as follows:

    for(int i=0;i<[plistArray count];i++)
    {
       someString = [someString stringByAppendingFormat:@"%@ \n %@",[[plistArray objectAtIndex:i] objectForKey:@"QuestionTitle"],[[plistArray objectAtIndex:i] objectForKey:@"QuestionAnswer"]];

    }

    //Display someString in UITextView.
yourTextView.text = someString;

Your plist contains array of Dictionarys, otherwise get all keys and values and create NSString as above and display in UITextView.