How to get current attributed string in non-editable UITextView?

Question

I'm setting the appearance of a UITextView's text in the storyboard via the attributed string properties. However when I try to access it at runtime in order to copy the attributes object, it returns null.

NSAttributedString *atrString = self.contentTextView.attributedText;
NSLog(@"atrString = %@", atrString);

Outputs

2013-09-20 14:44:19.572 PageTest[69125:70b] atrString = (null)

I haven't worked with attributed strings before so I'm sure I'm doing something wrong, but scouring the documentation has still left me empty handed. Any assistance would be appreciated. Thanks!

Answer 1

Just had the same issue: can't access attributedText on TextView if it is not marked as selectable in Interface Builder (Xcode 6.1). No problem though if the same is done in code. In my case I subclass UITextview:

-(id)initWithCoder:(NSCoder *)aDecoder
{
    self = [super initWithCoder:aDecoder];
    if (self)
    {
        self.selectable = NO;
    }
    return self;
}

So I assume something is not quite perfect with IB. Again)