UITextView does not save markTextStyle (UITextInput protocol)

Question

Marking the text in a UITextView, but for some reason it refuses to accept anything that I give it using setMarkedTextStyle. -markedTextStyle always returns nil, and the selected text always looks the same (blue background and supports the color of the text).

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

I tried to do this when I create a text view, right before marking the text and immediately after. But it still maintains the default style and returns zero for the style.

Answer 1

After many tests, the only thing I can say is that this is a bug in the SDK. The markedTextStyle property has no effect, and getter always returns nil.

This contradicts what we can read in the documentation:

markedTextStyle

An attribute dictionary that describes how marked text should be drawn.

I reported this to Apple as an error (Bug ID - 17914881 ).

Answer 2

I think you want to use the attribute attribute text instead of labeltextstyle (if I understood your question correctly)

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

How to set color and alignment of attribute text in UITextView in iOS 7?

Answer 3

Do you want to change the selectedText or markedText ?

Later it will only be for Chinese / Japanese letters, so maybe you should try changing highlightedTextColor .