This is a text view that solves a few tasks that cannot be solved using UILabel or UITextView.
It is not a complete UITextView replacement and doesn't support editing or text selection, for
example.
Main features:
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Optional custom justify. The default justification implementation "stretches" words early on, it increases the letter-spacing. By contrast, the custom justification in
MHTextViewonly increases the whitespace and leaves the letter-spacing untouched, unless there is only one word on a line. -
Ellipsis on last line. Optionally adds an ellipsis at the end of the text if it doesn't fit and overflows.
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Custom layouts. The default layout,
MHDefaultTextViewLayout, already provides support for multiple columns. If you need more fancy layouts you can implement your own. The demo project provides examples. -
Exclusion paths. You can provide arbitrary
UIBezierPaths into which the text view is not allowed to render (to "cut" holes into your text). -
Exclusion views. Similar to exclusion paths, the text view can track other views and use their frames as exclusion paths so you don't have to provide the corresponding paths yourself.
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Top-to-bottom text distribution for multi-column layouts. Usually, text is distributed by completely filling the first column, then proceeding to the next until the text runs out. With this setting the text is distributed over the columns in such a way that they all have the same height, if possible.
The provided demo project let's you play with all of these settings.
- The ellipsis sometimes removes the last one or two characters of the last word.
- AutoLayout intrinsic content height is only supported for single-column setup when using
MHDefaultTextViewLayout.
BSD-style. See LICENSE file.