iOS Formatting Text in Interface Builder??

[salvadormg]

Hi,

Just one quick question, i am currently working in interface builder and i am writing a lot of text in a text view and i copy and paste all the text i wrote up earlier from another programme (there is a lot of text! so i can't wright it all out again it would set me back days...) and when i paste it in it just stays all in one "lump", i can't make spaces cos every time i press enter it just goes out of the text box, how do i make spaces to make new lines or tab to format the text to look better?? I can't find it anywhere and i am sure its one of those silly simple answers that just didn't occur to me at the time.. can anyone help???

Thanks

 

[PhoneyDeveloper]

Consider using UIWebview for formatted text. Put the text in a file that you add to your project and load it into a webview at runtime.

 

[dejo]

You can use Option-Return for soft-returns. As for tabs, don't. Textviews are not meant for fancy formatting, as stated in the documentation. Instead, "to display more complex styling in your application, you need to use a UIWebView object and render your content using HTML."

 

[salvadormg]

You can use Option-Return for soft-returns. As for tabs, don't. Textviews are not meant for fancy formatting, as stated in the documentation. Instead, "to display more complex styling in your application, you need to use a UIWebView object and render your content using HTML."

That worked perfectly thats!! Now, back to work for 5 more hours.... don't think i will be sleeping tonight!