Change tableView section header color - colors

I was searching many hours and could not find any solution for, what I thought was simple, but as it seems it is not.
I have a tableView and attached a viewController as subclass of tableViewController.
Now I would just like to change the header color of the sections.
Due to the reason that this is not possible in storyboard, I would really like to know with which code I can make it happen.

this is work 100% and you can change your index or header text color
- (void)tableView:(UITableView *)tableView willDisplayHeaderView:(UIView *)view forSection:(NSInteger)section
{
view.tintColor = [UIColor redColor];
// if you have index/header text in your tableview change your index text color
UITableViewHeaderFooterView *headerIndexText = (UITableViewHeaderFooterView *)view;
[headerIndexText.textLabel setTextColor:[UIColor blueColor]];
}

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UItextview will disregard line height when NSFontAttributeName is set

Well, Ive searched in several places and although some people allegedly have found fixes it doesn't seem to apply to my case.
I'm trying to procedurally set the line height of a few UItextviews like this :
UITextView *lab = [LocalTexts objectAtIndex:j];
NSMutableParagraphStyle *paragraphStyle = [[NSMutableParagraphStyle alloc] init];
paragraphStyle.lineHeightMultiple = 50.0f;
paragraphStyle.maximumLineHeight = 50.0f;
paragraphStyle.minimumLineHeight = 50.0f;
NSString *string = lab.text;
NSDictionary *ats = #{
NSFontAttributeName : [UIFont fontWithName:#"DIN Medium" size:16.0f],
NSParagraphStyleAttributeName : paragraphStyle,
};
lab.attributedText = [[NSAttributedString alloc] initWithString:string attributes:ats];
Strange thing is that if I disable the NSFontAttributeName assignment, the line height will work, also, if I set the Paragraph style to have a certain paragraph height, that always works too, so the NSParagraphStyleAttribute IS NOT being fully ignored. I dont know if it is a bug or I'm actually doing something wrong.
I tried implementing it as pure CORE TEXT, but it is a bit too complex for the current scope of the project.
Hope someone can point me in the right direction. Thanks.
This is a known bug in NSHTMLWriter which is used by UITextView to convert your attributed string to HTML: http://www.cocoanetics.com/2012/12/radar-uitextview-ignores-minimummaximum-line-height-in-attributed-string/
You can use UITextView replacement we have in DTCoreText to render this text correctly: https://github.com/Cocoanetics/DTCoreText

UITextView attributedText and syntax highlighting

Background
So, with iOS 6 an UITextView can take an attributedString, which could be useful for Syntax highlighting.
I'm doing some regex patterns in -textView:shouldChangeTextInRange:replacementText: and oftentimes I need to change the color of a word already typed. I see no other options than resetting the attributedText, which takes time.
- (BOOL)textView:(UITextView *)textView shouldChangeTextInRange:(NSRange)range replacementText:(NSString *)text
{
//A context will allow us to not call -attributedText on the textView, which is slow.
//Keep context up to date
[self.context replaceCharactersInRange:range withAttributedString:[[NSAttributedString alloc] initWithString:text attributes:self.textView.typingAttributes]];
// […]
self.textView.scrollEnabled = FALSE;
[self.context setAttributes:self.defaultStyle range:NSMakeRange(0, self.context.length)];
[self refresh]; //Runs regex-patterns in the context
  textView.attributedText = self.context;
self.textView.selectedRange = NSMakeRange(range.location + text.length, 0);
self.textView.scrollEnabled = TRUE;
return FALSE;
}
This runs okayish on the simulator, but on an iPad 3 each -setAttributedText takes a few hundreds of milliseconds.
I filed a bug to Apple, with the request of being able to mutate the attributedText. It got marked as a duplicate, so I cannot see what they're saying about this.
The question
The more specific question:
How can I change the color of certain ranges in a UITextView, with a large multicolored text, with good enough performance to do it in every shouldReplaceText...?
The more broad question:
How do you do syntax highlighting with a UITextView in iOS 6?
I encountered the same problem for my application Zap-Guitar (No-Strings-Attached) where I allow users to type/paste/edit their own songs and the app highlights recognized chords.
Yes it is true apple uses an html writer and parser to display the attributed text. A wonderful explanation of behind the scene can be found here: http://www.cocoanetics.com/2012/12/uitextview-caught-with-trousers-down/
The only solution I found for this problem is not to use attributed text which is an overkill for syntax highlighting.
Instead I reverted to the good old UITextView with plain text and added buttons to the text view where highlighted was needed. To compute the buttons frames I used this answer: How to find position or get rect of any word in textview and place buttons over that?
This reduced CPU usage by 30% (give or take).
Here is a handy category:
#implementation UITextView (WithButtons)
- (CGRect)frameForTextRange:(NSRange)range {
UITextPosition *beginning = self.beginningOfDocument;
UITextPosition *start = [self positionFromPosition:beginning offset:range.location];
UITextPosition *end = [self positionFromPosition:start offset:range.length];
UITextRange *textRange = [self textRangeFromPosition:start toPosition:end];
CGRect rect = [self firstRectForRange:textRange];
return [self convertRect:rect fromView:self.textInputView];
}
#end
The attributedText accessors have to round-trip to/from HTML, so it's really non-optimal for a syntax-highlighted text view implementation. On iOS 6, you'll probably want to use CoreText directly.

How to adjust size of UITextView automatically ?

I want to make speech bubbles but there is a problem adjusting size of the bubbles in UITextView.
is there a way to increase the size of the Textview automatically depending on the length of the
text by using UITextView?
Okay I found a better way of doing what I was suggesting. Rather then deal with the UIView and resizing depending on the text inside it. I just made the UITextView have a rounded edge which now looks like a panel. Perfect. Hope this helps someone!
If your interested in the code
- (void)drawRect:(CGRect)rect
{
CGRect frame = self.frame;
frame.size.height = self.contentSize.height;
self.frame = frame; // Drawing code
self.clipsToBounds = YES;
self.layer.cornerRadius = 10.0f;
}
I think I understand what your getting at. I had this problem the other day. This bit of code will adjust the UITextView contents. Create a new class and call this into it via a new class. If you want to adjust the View well I'm still working on that :-P
Hope this helps
- (void)drawRect:(CGRect)rect
{
CGRect frame = self.frame;
frame.size.height = self.contentSize.height;
self.frame = frame; // Drawing code
}

uiscrollview for scrolling a very, very tall page

From top to bottom I have UIView, UIScrollView, a UIImage, a UILabel, a UITextView and a UIButton.
My reason behind the top-most UIScrollView was so the whole vertical content would scroll.
What I really need a substitute for is the UITextView (5th down) because the UITextView is a subclass of UIScrollView. And this substitute must accomodate the very tall column of formatted text.
What I don't want is a scrollable object in the middle of the page; I want the whole page to be scrollable.
One more thing ... please note there's a button immediately below this tall column of text.
John Love
THANK YOU! Ashack and Pentagp. I guess I finally had to surrender and dump the idea that IB could be used for all GUI ...
The entire UIView contains a UILabel, a UIImage, a UITextView and
a UIButton at the very bottom.
The goal here was to make this entire content scrollable.
Thanks to you guys at stackoverflow.com:
using IB, un-check "Scrolling Enabled" for the UITextView
because it's a concrete type of UIScrollView
using IB, drag a UIScrollView to the UIView and match sizes and
insure that the UIScrollView encloses all sub-views
make the UITextView height = its contentSize.height
move the UIButton to below this UITextView
and then, thanks to iphonedevsdk.com:
adjust the contentSize.height of the top-most UIScrollview to
include the height of the re-positioned UIButton
Problem solved!!!
Your question is not very specific, but I think you're asking how to make a text view that does not scroll, and expands to fit the text. You can do this with UILabel, but it's a multi-step process. The same will work for UITextView if you disable scrolling and set the contentSize to match the frame dimensions.
UILabel *label = [[UILabel alloc] initWithFrame:CGRectMake(100,100,100,100)];
label.font = [UIFont systemFontOfSize:24];
NSString *yourTextString = #"your text";
CGSize maximumLabelSize = CGSizeMake(100, 500);
CGSize expectedLabelSize = [yourTextString sizeWithFont:label.font
constrainedToSize:maximumLabelSize
lineBreakMode:yourLabel.lineBreakMode];
CGRect labelFrame = label.frame;
labelFrame.size.width = expectedLabelSize.width;
labelFrame.size.height = expectedLabelSize.height;
label.frame = labelFrame;
Then from there, use the label's frame to set the position of the button and all elements below it.
If I understand your problem, you don't want nested scroll.
So set yourTextView.scrollEnabled = NO; //Do it programmatically our in the nib
Also in order to display all the text set yourTextView frame height to its content height:
yourTextView.frame = CGRectMake(yourTextView.frame.origin.x,
yourTextView.frame.origin.y,
yourTextView.frame.size.width,
yourTextView.contentSize.height + (yourTextView.contentSize.width > yourTextView.frame.size.width ? (yourTextView.contentSize.width * yourTextView.contentSize.height / (yourTextView.contentSize.width - yourTextView.frame.size.width)) - yourTextView.contentSize.height :0)));
/*
If textView is dynamically filled, you have to check if yourTextView.contentSize.width is bigger than yourTextView.frame.size.width then add proportionally what is remaining to the height.
*/
At the end change your button position if needed:
yourbutton.frame = CGRectMake(yourbutton.frame.origin.x,
yourTextView.frame.origin.y + yourTextView.frame.size.height + 20, //If you want your button to be 20 point after your textView
yourbutton.frame.size.width,
yourbutton.frame.size.height);
Hope that will help you...

Why do navigation appear 20 pixels below status bar in the view? [duplicate]

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UIWebView on iPad size
- (void)viewDidLoad {
[super viewDidLoad];
UINavigationController *naviController = [[UINavigationController alloc]init];
[self.view addSubview:naviController.view];
}
If I add navigation controller in the view, it appears about 20 pixels below status bar.
I want it appears just below status bar. How do I fix this?
I've experienced this same issue.
This discussion was helpful: UIWebView on iPad size
Tony's answer helped me discover this trick:
naviController.view.frame = self.view.bounds;
Turns out setting the view height fixes this problem. You can do it in the nib (xib) file or progammatically when creating the view setting the view.frame = CGRect(0, 0, 320.0 460.0); or whatever it's supposed to be (in your case it looks like it should be 460.0 since you have the status bar on).
The main point is that if the view size is smaller than the height of the screen, there are no guarantees where your controls will show up.
- (BOOL)application:(UIApplication *)application didFinishLaunchingWithOptions:(NSDictionary *)launchOptions {
CGRect frame = CGRectMake(0, 0, 320.0, 480.0);
viewController.view.frame = frame;
[self.window addSubview:viewController.view];
[self.window makeKeyAndVisible];
return YES;
}
I changed like above. It works. So far so good. If height was 460, there would have been blank line at the bottom. View's absolute coordinate is (0, 20). So, Navigation bar's coordinate is (0, 40). I think that was the problem. I will encounter another problem.
Maybe there is way to change coordinate before displaying navigation view. Thank you.

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