Adding a line break to a UITextView

Question

Hi

I have a UITextView that takes an NSString with formating stringWithUTF8String. It is getting its values from a database and I want the text in the database to be rendered with breaks within the text. I tried using "\n" to do this but it gets rendered as text. Doing this in my information page of the app as straight text worked but I think the reason its not working when taking it from the database is because of the formating.

Any suggestions?

Appreciate your time!

Answer 1

You're saving a literal "\n" in the database. Try saving a newline.

Answer 2

Set the (UIKeyboardType)keyboardType and (UIReturnKeyTYpe) returnKeyType

if you are building in code.

If you are using IB then just go to the first inspector panel and set the TextInputTraits

Answer 3

Just as a sanity check, this is a TextView and not a TextField, correct?

Answer 4

Expanding tc's answer a bit: when you have newlines in the string, you probably want to convert them to \n (that is, @"\\n" in Cocoa) then save to the db and, on getting the string BACK from the db, you probably want to convert those back to newlines. So you'd use code something like this:

NSString *saveString = [myTextField.text stringByReplacingOccurancesOfString: @"\n" withString: @"\\n"];
// save it to the db
// ... later ...
NSString *dbString = // get the db from the db.
myTextField.text = [dbString stringByReplacingOccurancesOfString: @"\\n" withString: @"\n"];