I want to override the method that draws the text into a UITextView. What is the correct method to override?
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I want to override the method that draws the text into a UITextView. What is the correct method to override?
Update 2016-02-09: This answer is now wrong (and has been since iOS 6). You can now use UITextView by setting an NSAttributedString to the
attributedTextproperty instead of setting a normal NSString to thetextproperty.Relevant newer question: https://stackoverflow.com/a/14231900/458205
Original Answer
There’s no way to set different colours for different words in a UITextView.
There are multiple replacements for a UITextView which support rich text editing (listed bellow).
However if you only want to give different text different color’s in a UITextView (like syntax highlighting) the easiest thing to do is just use a UITextView itself for the editing with a CoreText overlay displaying the coloured text.
https://github.com/SquaredTiki/EditableCoreTextOverlay