How can I "set tab stops" in a UITextView?
How can I "set tab stops" in a UITextView?
- Subject: How can I "set tab stops" in a UITextView?
- From: Jay Reynolds Freeman <email@hidden>
- Date: Sat, 18 Dec 2010 20:19:39 -0800
I would like to be able to control what is displayed in a UITextView when the text contains a "tab" character. (I conjecture that if there is a mechanism to do that, it might be common to both UITextView and NSTextView, so if anyone knows anything about the latter, please speak up.)
More specifically:
Testing suggests that when there are tab characters in a text string being displayed in a UITextView, the system behaves as if "tab stops" were set every eight characters; that is, the next character after a tab is displayed at the next horizontal position that would correspond to it being preceded by a number of blank spaces that is a multiple of eight.
Is there a way to make that position be a multiple of something other than eight? I do not need the full generality of completely adjustable tab stops, I just want to be able to change "eight" to another value.
My work-around is to watch text as it is typed or pasted into the view and deal with tabs there, on my own, or I suppose that if I were a dedicated masochist I could in principle override a "draw" method somewhere, but it would be easier to use a built-in mechanism if there is one.
I posted a query about this in the forums, and I have of course googled the usual suspects.
Thanks.
-- Jay Reynolds Freeman
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