https://github.com/HansPinckaers/GrowingTextView

[UNMAINTAINED] An UITextView which grows/shrinks with the text and starts scrolling when the content reaches a certain number of lines. Similar to the one Apple uses in the SMS-app. See blog-post for a small screencast.
https://github.com/HansPinckaers/GrowingTextView

Last synced: 20 days ago
JSON representation

[UNMAINTAINED] An UITextView which grows/shrinks with the text and starts scrolling when the content reaches a certain number of lines. Similar to the one Apple uses in the SMS-app. See blog-post for a small screencast.

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/HansPinckaers/GrowingTextView
• Owner: hanspinckaers
• License: mit
• Archived: true
• Created: 2011-08-05T17:37:18.000Z (over 13 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2018-04-10T05:54:55.000Z (over 6 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-05-17T11:01:37.317Z (6 months ago)
• Language: Objective-C
• Homepage: http://www.hanspinckaers.com/multi-line-uitextview-similar-to-sms
• Size: 604 KB
• Stars: 2,052
• Watchers: 85
• Forks: 454
• Open Issues: 71
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: README.md
  • License: LICENSE.txt

Awesome Lists containing this project

• awesome - GrowingTextView - [UNMAINTAINED] An UITextView which grows/shrinks with the text and starts scrolling when the content reaches a certain number of lines. Similar to the one Apple uses in the SMS-app. See blog-post for a small screencast. (etc)
• awesome - GrowingTextView - [UNMAINTAINED] An UITextView which grows/shrinks with the text and starts scrolling when the content reaches a certain number of lines. Similar to the one Apple uses in the SMS-app. See blog-post for a small screencast. (etc)

README

        
HPGrowingTextView

=================

Multi-line/Autoresizing UITextView similar as in the SMS-app. The example project mimicks the look of Apple's SMS-app.

![Screenshot](http://f.cl.ly/items/270f2F3q3d3q142m140A/ss.png)

Properties

----------

```objective-c

int maxNumberOfLines; // Stops growing at this amount of lines.

int minNumberOfLines; // Starts growing at this amount of lines.

int maxHeight; // Specify the maximum height in points instead of lines.

int minHeight; // Specify the minimum height in points instead of lines.

BOOL animateHeightChange; // Animate the growing

NSTimeInterval animationDuration; // Adjust the duration of the growth animation.

```

UITextView borrowed properties

----------------

```objective-c

NSString *text;

UIFont *font;

UIColor *textColor;

NSTextAlignment textAlignment;

NSRange selectedRange;

BOOL editable;

UIDataDetectorTypes dataDetectorTypes;

UIReturnKeyType returnKeyType;

```

If you want to set other UITextView properties, use .internalTextView 

Delegate methods

---------------

```objective-c

-(BOOL)growingTextViewShouldBeginEditing:(HPGrowingTextView *)growingTextView;

-(BOOL)growingTextViewShouldEndEditing:(HPGrowingTextView *)growingTextView;

-(void)growingTextViewDidBeginEditing:(HPGrowingTextView *)growingTextView;

-(void)growingTextViewDidEndEditing:(HPGrowingTextView *)growingTextView;

-(BOOL)growingTextView:(HPGrowingTextView *)growingTextView shouldChangeTextInRange:(NSRange)range replacementText:(NSString *)text;

-(void)growingTextViewDidChange:(HPGrowingTextView *)growingTextView;

// Called WITHIN animation block!

-(void)growingTextView:(HPGrowingTextView *)growingTextView willChangeHeight:(float)height;

// Called after animation

-(void)growingTextView:(HPGrowingTextView *)growingTextView didChangeHeight:(float)height;

-(void)growingTextViewDidChangeSelection:(HPGrowingTextView *)growingTextView;

-(BOOL)growingTextViewShouldReturn:(HPGrowingTextView *)growingTextView;

```

For more info, see blogpost: http://www.hanspinckaers.com/multi-line-uitextview-similar-to-sms