[SOLVED] Limit number of characters in uitextview

Limit number of characters in uitextview

I am giving a text view to tweet some string .

I am applying the following method to restrict the number of characters to 140 in length.

- (BOOL)textView:(UITextView *)textView shouldChangeTextInRange:(NSRange)range replacementText:(NSString *)text{
   return [[textView text] length] <= 140;
}

The code is working nicely except the first condition that backspace is not working. suppose that I have reached the limit of 140 characters so that the method will give me false and the user can not insert more characters but after that when I try to delete some characters the text view behave as it is disabled .

So the question is: "How to delete characters from textview.text or re-enable the text view?"

Solution

You should be looking for an empty string instead, as the apple reference says

If the user presses the Delete key, the length of the range is 1 and an empty string object replaces that single character.

I think the check you actually want to make is something like [[textView text] length] - range.length + text.length > 140, to account for cut/paste operations.