Change font color of UITextView

Question

I have a UITextView where the user can input text. Say the user has already inputted a value. How can I change the font color of that already typed text and future typed text to a different one with the click of a button?

I already have it set up where I can change the color of the text but it only works if I choose a color BEFORE I start typing. After I start typing and I attempt to change the color, it doesn't do anything.

I have this:

-(IBAction)changeInkColor:(id)sender {     [inkTextField setTextColor:[UIColor greenColor]];      inkTextField.text=@"text"; } 

and that actually works and displays "text" in green only if there is no text already in the view. However if I type something in and then hit this button, nothing happens.

Answer 1

I just tried that and I had no problems. I set up a button that called [myTextView setTextColor:[UIColor redColor]];

After typing a bit with black text color, I pressed the button, and everything turned red. Then I continued typing, all in red.

Are you using setTextColor: to do this also?

Answer 2

In the end, setTextColor: is the answer, there's an important detail missing from the earlier answers: To get this to work in iOS 8, I had to set the color =after= I set the text.

Hence,

- (void)viewDidLoad {     [super viewDidLoad];      _myTextView.textColor = [UIColor whiteColor];     _myTextView.text   = @"yadda yadda yadda...";      // etc., snip 

Did NOT work, while

- (void)viewDidLoad {     [super viewDidLoad];      _myTextView.text   = @"yadda yadda yadda...";     _myTextView.textColor = [UIColor whiteColor];      // etc., snip 

DID work. This strikes me as a bug in iOS 8, which I will write up.