How to justify text in a textbox ios? - iphone

Question

I am developing an app for the iphone. One of my views contains a textbox that I used to display text. I used storyboard to do this. To better explain, this view will show the user the history of a football team. E.g " the team was established in 1990" etc and give a full history of the team. So there will be no user interaction. The reader will only read the text and move on to the next page. Is using a textbox for the text a good idea? And is there anyway to justify the alignment of the text so the ends of the lines are all alligned?

Answer 1

I think You will Use WebView Because justified aligment for text you only have center, left and right by UItextView.
IF You Want to Use UiWebView then set in
className.h
#interface className : UIViewController {
IBOutlet UIWebView *webviewName;
}
#property (nonatomic, retain) UIWebView *webviewName;
className.m
[webviewName loadHTMLString:[NSString stringWithFormat:#"<div align='justify'>%#<div>",TEXT_set] baseURL:nil];

Answer 2

UITextView is a good way to go, but it has no option to justify the text it contains. Another approach is using a UIWebView to display a simple HTML document.
To have nice looking justified text in HTML set the text-align property to justify and may use some JavaScript to enhance line-breaking.
Hope that helps :)

Answer 3

ok there is no problem with that u shoud to use textView ,just make sure its user intteraction is disable, while if ur data is coming dynamic than u should to use Web view, this make alignment correct

Answer 4

I have found that a generic view controller subclass to load a web view is very reusable. I have two. One designed for a navigation controller, and another designed a a modal view controller. I use them over and again with modification for things like help, legal information, and about my company. It would work very well for your purposes.
I use KempoZer as my free html editor to create the files I load in it. The advantage is that the html editor allows me to add bold, italic, headings, and different font sizes.
In storyboard I have several segues to the same view controller and set the two properties in a prepare for segue method in the view controller that calls the html view controller.
- (void)prepareForSegue:(UIStoryboardSegue *)segue sender:(id)sender
{
if ([[segue identifier] isEqualToString:#"instructions"]) {
[[segue destinationViewController] setNavigationTitle:#"Instructions"];
[[segue destinationViewController] setHtmlFileName:#""];
} else if ([[segue identifier] isEqualToString:#"legal"]) {
[[segue destinationViewController] setNavigationTitle:#"Legal Notices"];
[[segue destinationViewController] setHtmlFileName:#"legal.html"];
} else if ([[segue identifier] isEqualToString:#"about"]) {
[[segue destinationViewController] setNavigationTitle:#"About"];
[[segue destinationViewController] setHtmlFileName:#"AboutSuperDuperCoolApps.html"];
} else if ([[segue identifier] isEqualToString:#"videoTutorials"]) {
[[segue destinationViewController] setNavigationTitle:#"Video Tutorials"];
[[segue destinationViewController] setHtmlFileName:#""];
}
}
Here is the nab controller version, don't forget to create the storyboard view controller and hook up the web view.
// HTMLViewController.h
#import <UIKit/UIKit.h>
#interface HTMLViewController : UIViewController
#property (strong, nonatomic) IBOutlet UIWebView *webView;
#property (strong, nonatomic) NSString *htmlFileName;
#property (strong, nonatomic) NSString *navigationTitle;
#end
and
// HTMLViewController.
#import "HTMLViewController.h"
#implementation HTMLViewController
#synthesize webView, htmlFileName, navigationTitle;
- (id)initWithNibName:(NSString *)nibNameOrNil bundle:(NSBundle *)nibBundleOrNil
{
self = [super initWithNibName:nibNameOrNil bundle:nibBundleOrNil];
if (self) {
// Custom initialization
}
return self;
}
- (void)didReceiveMemoryWarning
{
// Releases the view if it doesn't have a superview.
[super didReceiveMemoryWarning];
// Release any cached data, images, etc that aren't in use.
}
#pragma mark - View lifecycle
// Implement viewDidLoad to do additional setup after loading the view, typically from a nib.
- (void)viewDidLoad
{
//
[self.navigationItem setTitle:navigationTitle];
// load selected html file
NSString *bundle = [[NSBundle mainBundle] bundlePath];
NSString *webPath = [bundle stringByAppendingPathComponent:htmlFileName];
[super viewDidLoad];
[webView loadRequest:[NSURLRequest requestWithURL:
[NSURL fileURLWithPath:webPath]]];
//
[super viewDidLoad];
}
- (void)viewDidUnload
{
[self setWebView:nil];
[self setHtmlFileName:nil];
[self setNavigationTitle:nil];
[super viewDidUnload];
// Release any retained subviews of the main view.
// e.g. self.myOutlet = nil;
}
- (BOOL)shouldAutorotateToInterfaceOrientation:(UIInterfaceOrientation)interfaceOrientation
{
// Return YES for supported orientations
return (interfaceOrientation == UIInterfaceOrientationPortrait);
}
#end