How can I use pinch zoom(UIPinchGestureRecognizer) to change width of a UITextView?

Question

I can get the UIPinchGestureRecognizer handler to work with scaling an object but I don\'t want to scale I want to change the size. For example I have a

Answer 1

I think what you want to do is just multiplying the width of your textView's frame with the gesture recognizer's scale:

CGFloat scale = gestureRecognizer.scale;
CGRect newFrame = textView.frame;
newFrame.size = CGSizeMake(scale*newFrame.size.width, newFrame.size.height);
textView.frame = newFrame;

Or isn't this what you mean?