I've been trying to create a multiline TextField
in SwiftUI, but I can't figure out how.
This is the code I currently have:
struct EditorTextView : View {
@Binding var text: String
var body: some View {
TextField($text)
.lineLimit(4)
.multilineTextAlignment(.leading)
.frame(minWidth: 100, maxWidth: 200, minHeight: 100, maxHeight: .infinity, alignment: .topLeading)
}
}
#if DEBUG
let sampleText = """
Very long line 1
Very long line 2
Very long line 3
Very long line 4
"""
struct EditorTextView_Previews : PreviewProvider {
static var previews: some View {
EditorTextView(text: .constant(sampleText))
.previewLayout(.fixed(width: 200, height: 200))
}
}
#endif
But this is the output:
Update: While Xcode11 beta 4 now does support TextView
, I've found that wrapping a UITextView
is still be best way to get editable multiline text to work. For instance, TextView
has display glitches where text does not appear properly inside the view.
Original (beta 1) answer:
For now, you could wrap a UITextView
to create a composable View
:
import SwiftUI
import Combine
final class UserData: BindableObject {
let didChange = PassthroughSubject<UserData, Never>()
var text = "" {
didSet {
didChange.send(self)
}
}
init(text: String) {
self.text = text
}
}
struct MultilineTextView: UIViewRepresentable {
@Binding var text: String
func makeUIView(context: Context) -> UITextView {
let view = UITextView()
view.isScrollEnabled = true
view.isEditable = true
view.isUserInteractionEnabled = true
return view
}
func updateUIView(_ uiView: UITextView, context: Context) {
uiView.text = text
}
}
struct ContentView : View {
@State private var selection = 0
@EnvironmentObject var userData: UserData
var body: some View {
TabbedView(selection: $selection){
MultilineTextView(text: $userData.text)
.tabItemLabel(Image("first"))
.tag(0)
Text("Second View")
.font(.title)
.tabItemLabel(Image("second"))
.tag(1)
}
}
}
#if DEBUG
struct ContentView_Previews : PreviewProvider {
static var previews: some View {
ContentView()
.environmentObject(UserData(
text: """
Some longer text here
that spans a few lines
and runs on.
"""
))
}
}
#endif