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iOS

Posted by Melissa Be
Melissa Be
87 Points

Converting UILabel to UITextview

I'm working in the Choose your own adventure lesson for iOS and I wanted to try to have the text box in the UI be scrollable.

To get that scroll, I changed UILabel to a UITextView since this seems like the natural way to get scrolling behavior, but now the text isn't showing up at all in the UI. I'm not sure what I'm missing here. Anyone have any ideas?

1 Answer

Chris Stromberg
PLUS
Chris Stromberg
Courses Plus Student 13,389 Points
Chris Stromberg
Chris Stromberg
Courses Plus Student 13,389 Points

UITextField has a property named "text". The easiest way to access this would be to create an outlet in your ViewController file linked to this UITextfield. Then within viewdidload set the UITextField.text = to what ever you want it show for text.

Melissa Be
Melissa Be
87 Points

Hmm so the text property is there, but I'm wondering if you know of anything specific to the UILabel or its sizing that would impact its conversion to the UITextView. It's still not working :(