Recognise a text by tapping on it in a textField Swift - ios

Question

I am a newbie and want to make a custom class for a UITextView where I will be able to get the text by tapping on it within the UITextView. How to create Custom UITextView class?

Answer 1

Try this, I have created custom textview class and protocol that you need to confirm in your class and implement that method to get text of textview every time when you click textview.
class CustomTextView: UITextView {
weak var delegateCustomTV: CustomTextViewDelegate?
override func awakeFromNib() {
super.awakeFromNib()
let tapGestureRecognizer = UITapGestureRecognizer(target: self, action: #selector(self.textViewTapped))
self.addGestureRecognizer(tapGestureRecognizer)
}
#objc func textViewTapped() {
delegateCustomTV?.preparedText(text: self.text ?? "")
}
}
protocol CustomTextViewDelegate: class {
func preparedText(text: String)
}
use like i have used below,
class yourViewController: UIViewController, CustomTextViewDelegate {
#IBOutlet weak var textView: CustomTextView!
override func viewDidLoad() {
super.viewDidLoad()
textView.delegateCustomTV = self
}
func preparedText(text: String) {
// You will get your text here when you click on textview
print(text)
}
}

Answer 2

Try this
override func viewDidLoad() {
super.viewDidLoad()
self.textView.delegate = self
}
extension YourViewController: UITextViewDelegate
{
//MARK:- TextView Editing begins Function
func textViewDidBeginEditing(_ textView: UITextView)
{
//TextView Editing Begin Function
}
// MARK:- TextView text replaced Function
func textView(_ textView: UITextView, shouldChangeTextIn range: NSRange, replacementText text: String) -> Bool
{
//Character changed in textView
return true
}
// MARK:- TextView End Editing function
func textViewDidEndEditing(_ textView: UITextView)
{
//End editing of textView
}
}

Answer 3

if you want to get text every time you tap textview you have to add tap gesture
override func viewDidLoad() {
super.viewDidLoad()
self.textView.delegate = self
let tap = UITapGestureRecognizer(target: self, action: #selector(self.textViewTapped(_:)))
self.textView.addGestureRecognizer(tap)
}
#objc func textViewTapped(_ sender: UITapGestureRecognizer){
print(textView.text)
}