TextView

The missing TextView in SwiftUI

Download

• File -> Swift Packages -> Add Package Dependency...
• Select your project
• Enter https://github.com/kenmueller/TextView for the package repository URL
• Select Branch: master
• Click Finish

Inputs

• text: Binding<String>
• isEditing: Binding<Bool>
  • The TextView will modify the value when it is selected and deselected
  • You can also modify this value to automatically select and deselect the TextView
• placeholder: String? = nil
• textAlignment: TextView.TextAlignment = .left
• textHorizontalPadding: CGFloat = 0
• textVerticalPadding: CGFloat = 7
• placeholderAlignment: Alignment = .topLeading
• placeholderHorizontalPadding: CGFloat = 4.5
• placeholderVerticalPadding: CGFloat = 7
• font: UIFont = .preferredFont(forTextStyle: .body)
  • By default, the font is a body-style font
• textColor: UIColor = .black
• placeholderColor: Color = .gray
• backgroundColor: UIColor = .white
• contentType: TextView.ContentType? = nil
  • For semantic purposes only
• autocorrection: TextView.Autocorrection = .default
• autocapitalization: TextView.Autocapitalization = .sentences
• isSecure: Bool = false
• isEditable: Bool = true
• isSelectable: Bool = true
• isScrollingEnabled: Bool = true
• isUserInteractionEnabled: Bool = true
• shouldWaitUntilCommit: Bool = true
  • For multi-stage input methods, setting this to false would make the TextView completely unusable.
  • This option will ignore text changes when the user is still composing characters.
• shouldChange: TextView.ShouldChangeHandler? = nil
  • Of type (NSRange, String) -> Bool and is called with the arguments to textView(_:shouldChangeTextIn:replacementText:).

Example

import SwiftUI
import TextView

struct ContentView: View {
    @State var text = ""
    @State var isEditing = false
    
    var body: some View {
        VStack {
            Button(action: {
                self.isEditing.toggle()
            }) {
                Text("\(isEditing ? "Stop" : "Start") editing")
            }
            TextView(
                text: $text,
                isEditing: $isEditing,
                placeholder: "Enter text here"
            )
        }
    }
}

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