Highlight PART of text of UITextView

Question

Hi all together,

I'm quite new to Iphone programming, and already did some search on the internet trying to get some usefull help.

What I would like to do is, if my detailed view gets called I would like to highlight just a Part of the text of the UITextView Element.

Lets say the text within the UITextView is: blatextbla Then I would like to highlight dynamically only "text" or "late" or whatever comes to the users mind.

Any suggestions on how to do that?

thanks in advance!

Answer 1

you'll need to get the ranges within your text where the text to be highlighted starts and ends then use:

NSRange selection = [yourNSString rangeOfString:@"late"]; if( selection.location != NSNotFound ){ myTextView.selectedRange = selection; }

I've never tried to select multiple ranges within a UITextView, so not sure if that's possible. I doubt its possible...

Answer 2

USE THIS MY DEAR - (BOOL)textView:(UITextView *)textView shouldChangeTextInRange:(NSRange)range replacementText:(NSString *)text THIS IS A BUILT IN FUNCTION THROUGH WHICH YOU CAN FIND AND REPLACE THE TEXT IN TEXTVIEW