The following is a trivial example of a UITextView backed by a NSTextStorage. The "doAction1" is fired by clicking on some UI button. Reading through the docs, I was under the impression that by updating the NSTextStorage in a begin/end Editing block, the View will automatically update itself as well.
However, it doesn't seems to happen -- the example below appends "...World!" to NSTextStorage but the UITextView doesn't reflect that -- and continues to just display "Hello". Any idea?
import UIKit
class ViewController: UIViewController {
let TEXT = "Hello"
var m_layoutManager: NSLayoutManager!
var m_textView: UITextView!
@IBAction func doAction1(_ sender: AnyObject) {
let ts = m_layoutManager.textStorage
ts?.beginEditing()
ts?.append(AttributedString(string:"...World!"))
ts?.endEditing()
// These two don't make a difference either:
//
// m_layoutManager.invalidateDisplay(forCharacterRange: NSRange(location: 0, length: (ts?.length)!))
// m_textView.setNeedsDisplay()
//
}
override func viewDidLoad() {
super.viewDidLoad()
let textStorage = NSTextStorage(string: TEXT)
let textContainer = NSTextContainer(
size: CGSize(width: 200, height: 300))
m_layoutManager = NSLayoutManager()
m_layoutManager.textStorage = textStorage
m_layoutManager.addTextContainer(textContainer)
m_textView = UITextView(
frame: CGRect(x: 0, y: 20, width: 200, height: 300),
textContainer: textContainer)
view.addSubview(m_textView)
}
override func didReceiveMemoryWarning() {
super.didReceiveMemoryWarning()
}
}
Solved. The NSLayoutManager wasn't properly connected to the NSTextStorage. So instead of telling the layout manager that it has a storage, i.e:
m_layoutManager.textStorage = textStorage
I'm telling the storage that it has a manager:
textStorage.addLayoutManager(m_layoutManager)
And that's it.