Max height for JSQMessagesComposerTextView

[mrojas]

It would be nice if JSQMessagesComposerTextView had a property "maxHeight" or "maxLines", which is used to determine how tall the input field can grow.
Currently there is not limit, so if you type a huge message the text view takes the entire screen.

JSQMessagesComposerTextView is already observing UITextView notifications, so it could be done like described here: http://corecocoa.wordpress.com/2013/11/09/auto-growing-uitextview-using-auto-layout/

If "maxLines" is prefered, we can use the UIFont method to determine the line height.

Do you think this would be useful for other users?

[jessesquires]

@mrojas - let's see if there are other requests for this feature. i'd be happy to accept a PR, too.

a maximumHeight is definitely the right way to do this -- not maximum lines or line height.

[wdcurry]

this is a very logical augmentation..

[jessesquires]

it should actually be a pretty simple addition.

[mrojas]

I'll make a PR then :)

[kartikthapar]

I would love to have this feature as well.

@mrojas Is there an update on the PR?

[jessesquires]

All -- I've added this to the 6.2.0 milestone

[kartikthapar]

That's great. Thanks.

[samyakjain]

I tried everything but input text field height doesn't increase when a longer text is typed in. How can i solve this issue? I am on ios 9.

[danaelisanicolas]

Hi! I'm getting the same issue as @samyakjain, how can i increase the height of the input toolbar? thanks! Also on iOS 9

[samyakjain]

@thesleepycow I guess you forgot to call the method in baseview , call [super ...]

[danaelisanicolas]

@samyakjain sorry but i don't quite understand what you mean.. I'm trying in swift with this code

  self.inputToolbar?.maximumHeight = 500

[samyakjain]

i have done it in objective-c , you might be overriding this function,

• (void)observeValueForKeyPath:(NSString *)keyPath ofObject:(id)object change:(NSDictionary *)change context:(void *)

make sure you call
[super observeValueForKeyPath:keyPath ofObject:object change:change context:context];

[danaelisanicolas]

oh! it's working now. Thank you very much!

[samosys-ror]

hello @samyakjain in which class and place i will call this method [super observeValueForKeyPath:keyPath ofObject:object change:change context:context];