Phitext

Phitext is the first rich text editor library for iPhone OS developers who want more control over UITextView but don't want to resort to private API calls.

The library takes advantage of the UITextView protocol introduced in iPhone OS 3.2 (and available in 4.0) to accept input from the system (or custom) keyboard. Phitext overcomes the challenges of implementing the UITextView protocol in the face of sparse Apple documentation. Because Phitext is backed by an NSAttributedString and uses Core Text to render it's content the developer is free to add any style attributes supported by NSAttributedString and Core Text.

Getting Started

You may like to start at the Phitext-workspace repository, which will get you started with a workspace and submodules for this and related projects.

To use the library in your projects:

1. Clone or download this repository.
2. Drag and drop the Xcode project into your Xcode workspace.
3. Add the Phitext.a static library to your project's Linked Frameworks and Libraries.
4. From your target's (or project's) Build Settings, ensure that Other Linker Flags (OTHER_LDFLAGS) contains -ObjC.
5. In your storyboard, add a UIScrollView and set its Custom Class to PhiTextEditorView, from the Identity Inspector.
6. Programmatically set the NSAttributedString in the PhiTextStorage object of the PhiTextDocument associated with every PhiTextEditorView.

See the sample code in Phitext-workspace repository for more details.

Contributing

Pull requests are welcome.

License

Apache