Wrapping Text in a UITextView Around a UIImage WITHOUT CoreText

Question

Is there a way to wrap text from a UITextView around a UIImage without using CoreText?

I have been playing around with attributed strings without much luck, and CoreText just seems extremely complicated so I would rather stay out of it.

Unblown

Answer 1

This seems to do the trick:

UIBezierPath * imgRect = [UIBezierPath bezierPathWithRect:CGRectMake(0, 0, 100, 100)];
self.textView.textContainer.exclusionPaths = @[imgRect];

Swift,

textView.textContainer.exclusionPaths = [UIBezierPath(...)]

or just

textView.textContainer.exclusionPaths = [UIBezierPath(...the image frame)]

Works only from iOS 7 and up.

Anjanetteanjela

@JoeBlow yes, just a normal UITextView. Thanks ) – Anjanetteanjela

How to add image in that rect area – Asthmatic

@deepakkumar I'd probably try adding your image view on top of UITextView at the needed location – Anjanetteanjela

Its possible on multiple images – Dwarfism

I would vote this as the single best iOS answer on StackOverflow! – Garvey

well explained in this article:littlebitesofcocoa.com/… – Fatness

Answer 2

In Swift 4:

self.textView.textContainer.exclusionPaths = [UIBezierPath(rect: imageView.frame)]

Coronet

I kind need to add a UIView(), I'm trying let view = UIView() and [UIBezierPath(rect: view.frame)], got no error but still not working... any idea? – Arratoon

hmm.. has the view's frame been defined by the time this is being called? if using auto layout, you ma need to add this to override func viewDidLayoutSubviews() (if in UIViewControlelr) or override func layoutSubviews() (if in UIView). – Coronet

This is what I'm trying #66026571 – Arratoon

Answer 3

The short answer is you can't without CoreText pre iOS 7.

I've been struggling with this myself a while ago and this post was very helpful to me.

It is CoreText though.

Ardyce

Ok, thanks. I guess I'll just have to figure out this CoreText stuff. Thanks. – Unblown