UITextView not saving markedTextStyle (UITextInput protocol)

Question

Marking text in a UITextView, but for some reason it's refusing to accept anything I give it with setMarkedTextStyle. -markedTextStyle always returns nil, and the marked text always looks the same (blue background and maintains text color).

[_taggedUsersView setMarkedTextStyle:@{UITextInputTextColorKey: [UIColor whiteColor], UITextInputTextBackgroundColorKey: [UIColor tranceLinkBlue], UITextInputTextFontKey: [UIFont fontWithName:@"HelveticaNeue-Medium" size:14.0]}];

Tried doing this both when I create the textview, right before marking text and right after. But it still maintains the default style, and returns nil for the style.

Jacobin

Long shot, but have you tried self.taggedUsersView? – Ormuz

If you're running iOS 8, that can be a problem as it is now deprecated: Deprecated in iOS 8.0. – Lancers

What is deprecated? Both markedTextStyle and setMarkedTextRange isn't deprecated in the iOS 8 docs I'm looking at now. – Marauding

#8067128 – Oleate

Not the same issue Kumar. My markedText is not nil, just the style. – Marauding

Answer 1

After a lot of testing the only thing I can say is that it is a bug in the SDK. Setting markedTextStyle property has no effect and getter returns always nil.

This comes against what we can read in documentation:

markedTextStyle

A dictionary of attributes that describes how marked text should be drawn.

I reported it to Apple as a bug (Bug ID - 17914881).

Joub

UITextField is equally affected by this bug. I've reported rdar://30208223 / openradar.appspot.com/30208223). Did you ever get a response to your report? – Thermography

Still not fixed I believe Nothing happens when I set it on iOS 13 – Stigmatize

Answer 2

I think you want to use attributed text property instead of markedtextstyle (if I understand your question correctly)

https://developer.apple.com/library/ios/documentation/uikit/reference/uitextview_class/Reference/UITextView.html

How can I set the color and alignment of attributed text in a UITextView in iOS 7?

Treaty

Actually the marked text style is separate from this. I'm already using attributed text in the textview, but the marked style is independent of that. – Marauding

Answer 3

Do you want to change the selectedText or the markedText property?

The later will only for Chinese/Japanese writing so maybe you should try modifying highlightedTextColor instead.

Wilkinson