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user330885
user330885

Reputation:

UITextView get selected text point

I was wondering is there any way to get the point of the selected text in UITextView ?

Thanks!

Upvotes: 1

Views: 3478

Answers (2)

borrrden
borrrden

Reputation: 33423

Yes, first get the active selection like this: myTextView.selectedRange and then pass it to this method [myTextView firstRectForRange:range] This will give you the first bounding rectangle (which is the entire selection if it is one line, and the area of the selection on the first line if it is multi-line) as a CGRect.

Upvotes: 1

Srikar Appalaraju
Srikar Appalaraju

Reputation: 73688

For iOS5 and above : Now UITextField and UITextView conform to UITextInput protocol so it is possible :)

Selecting the last 5 characters before the caret would be like this:

//Get current selected range , this example assumes is an insertion point or empty selection
UITextRange *selectedRange = [textField selectedTextRange];

NSLog("Start: %d <> End: %d", selectedRange.start, selectedRange.end);

//Calculate the new position, - for left and + for right
UITextPosition *newPosition = [textField positionFromPosition:selectedRange.start offset:-5];

//Construct a new range using the object that adopts the UITextInput, our textfield
UITextRange *newRange = [textField textRangeFromPosition:newPosition toPosition:selectedRange.start];

Upvotes: 2

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