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iOS TextView backspace problem

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andyiapan

macrumors newbie
Original poster
Feb 28, 2010
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i design a button to give textview a newline~

Code: 
inputfield.text =   [inputfield.text stringByAppendingString:@"\n"];
if i want to design a backspace UIbutton~

Code: 
inputfield.text =   [inputfield.text stringByAppendingString:@"\b"];
i can't get backspace from this kind of code.

how can i input a backspace from pressing a UIbutton~~

many thanks~
 
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ianray

macrumors 6502
Jun 22, 2010
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Code: 
\b
...is a C escape code which corresponds to ASCII character 8.

When used in a terminal (VT52 example) this particular code moves the cursor backwards. But, as you have noticed, that will not work in other environments -- including text fields.

A better solution is to simply remove the last character from inputfield.text.
 
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