> On 20 May 2017, at 19:11, Saagar Jha wrote:
> 
> Scroll views are dependent on the content size of their subviews. This can be 
> done
> by setting unambiguous constraints to the margins of the scroll view
> by manually setting the contentSize of the scroll view.
> If you don’t do either of these, the scroll view won’t work.

Looks like I can't get the scrolling behaviour for free in this way as I was 
hoping.

>> So I dumbed down the text view to a text field with vertical scroll bar in 
>> the xib.
>> After setting the scroller enabled (why would you want a scroll bar that is 
>> visible, yet not enabled?) it started to work.
> 
> Wait, what? How did you “dumb” down the text view? Did you start deleting 
> components? In general, this isn’t what you want to do; you can control 
> whether the scroll bars are shown through code or the inspector on the right 
> side. What behavior are you trying to achieve?

The behaviour of a non-editable text field with the added property that it can 
be scrolled.
I used the inspector to disable most of the capabilities of the text view.
I am happy with the result except that I cannot set the placeholder text now.

Jan E.

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