UITextView does not display

Question

There is a UITextView (green) inside a UIScrollView that should be displaying some text, but does not.

The frame of the ext view looks correct and has a width and height greater than 0. Any idea of what is going on?

"<AppName.UITextView: 0x7fd1ff810800; baseClass = UITextView; frame = (560 160; 23840 80); text = \'This text should appear\nT...\'; gestureRecognizers = <NSArray: 0x600001b9a520>; layer = <CALayer: 0x6000015a48c0>; contentOffset: {0, 0}; contentSize: {23840, 48}; adjustedContentInset: {0, 0, 0, 0}>"

Answer 1

What is peculiar about the UITextView is that it is very wide, over 23000 points wide. I tried a not so wide version of the same view, 500 points wide, and placed it right under the buggy view... it worked.

To solve the issue I changed the view hierarchy (UITextView within a standard UIView) so that the text views have a maximum width of 500 pts and it's working.

Possible root cause: The UITextView either wasn't designed to draw itself with extremely large widths or there are some technical limitations that prevent it from doing so.