iOS -- UITextView disable scrolling but enable touches

Question

Is there any way to do this?

What I really want is a UITextField where I can control the location of the cursor. But as far as I can tell, that is impossible. So I am looking at using a UITextView. This does allow one to control the cursor location. But scrolling is getting in the way -- my text is scrolling here and there, and I don't want that.

Answer 1

UITextView is a subclass of UIScrollView, so you can prevent the view from scrolling by setting the property scrollEnabled to NO.

Answer 2

If I set scrollEnabled to NO and have an empty implementation of scrollRectToVisible:animated:, it appears to disable scrolling.

Answer 3

Just set the UITextView’s content size to be less than or equal to its bounds, this will prevent scrolling and still accept touch events.