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How can I both stroke and fill with NSAttributedString w/ UILabel

Yes, the key is to apply a Negative value to the NSStrokeWidthAttributeName If this value is positive you will only see the stroke and not the fill. Objective-C: self.label.attributedText=[[NSAttributedString alloc] initWithString:@”string to both stroke and fill” attributes:@{ NSStrokeWidthAttributeName: @-3.0, NSStrokeColorAttributeName:[UIColor yellowColor], NSForegroundColorAttributeName:[UIColor redColor] } ]; Thanks to @cacau below: See also Technical Q&A QA1531 Swift … Read more

Add left/right horizontal padding to UILabel

For a full list of available solutions, see this answer: UILabel text margin Try subclassing UILabel, like @Tommy Herbert suggests in the answer to [this question][1]. Copied and pasted for your convenience: I solved this by subclassing UILabel and overriding drawTextInRect: like this: – (void)drawTextInRect:(CGRect)rect { UIEdgeInsets insets = {0, 5, 0, 5}; [super drawTextInRect:UIEdgeInsetsInsetRect(rect, … Read more

How to set kerning in iPhone UILabel

Old question, but you can do it now (easily). NSMutableAttributedString *attributedString; attributedString = [[NSMutableAttributedString alloc] initWithString:@”Please get wider”]; [attributedString addAttribute:NSKernAttributeName value:@5 range:NSMakeRange(10, 5)]; [self.label setAttributedText:attributedString]; For Nov 2013, Just to expand on this great answer, here’s some totally typical code. Usually you’d set the font as well. Note in the comments the old-fashioned way using … Read more

Two colors for UILabel TEXT

you can set text color with pattern image like bellow.. [yourLable setTextColor:[UIColor colorWithPatternImage:[UIImage imageNamed:@”yourImageName”]]]; and also set different color with this bellow code.. please check tutorial with detail mate.. NSString *test = @”Hello. That is a test attributed string.”; CFStringRef string = (CFStringRef) test; CFMutableAttributedStringRef attrString = CFAttributedStringCreateMutable(kCFAllocatorDefault, 0); CFAttributedStringReplaceString (attrString,CFRangeMake(0, 0), string); /* Note: … Read more

UILabel with two different color text

Try TTTAttributedLabel. It’s a subclass of UILabel that supports NSAttributedStrings, which would make it easy to have multiple colors, fonts, and styles in the same string. Edit: Alternatively, if you don’t want the 3rd party dependency and are targeting iOS 6, UILabel now has the attributedText property.

Highlight just the text in a UILabel

It seemed to me that the line break was the problem. My idea was to try and know when the UILabel would add a line break and then just remove that character from the range of characters being highlighted. It appears that you can’t just ask UILabel where the line breaks are going to be … Read more

Decrease the width of the last line in multiline UILabel

This seems to work, at least with the limited amount of testing I’ve done. There are two public methods. You can use the shorter one if you have multiple labels all with the same number of lines — just change the kNumberOfLines at the top to match what you want. Use the longer method if … Read more

How do I calculate the UILabel height dynamically [duplicate]

The easiest way to get the height is sizeThatFits. Use it like this: Objective-C CGFloat maxLabelWidth = 100; CGSize neededSize = [label sizeThatFits:CGSizeMake(maxLabelWidth, CGFLOAT_MAX)]; Swift 3.0 let maxLabelWidth: CGFloat = 100 let neededSize = label.sizeThatFits(CGSize(width: maxLabelWidth, height: CGFloat.greatestFiniteMagnitude)) The height your label needs is neededSize.height. Note that im using CGFLOAT_MAX for the size height, to … Read more

Letter by letter animation for UILabel?

Update for 2018, Swift 4.1: extension UILabel { func animate(newText: String, characterDelay: TimeInterval) { DispatchQueue.main.async { self.text = “” for (index, character) in newText.enumerated() { DispatchQueue.main.asyncAfter(deadline: .now() + characterDelay * Double(index)) { self.text?.append(character) } } } } } calling it is simple and thread safe: myLabel.animate(newText: myLabel.text ?? “May the source be with you”, characterDelay: … Read more

How to change an UILabel/UIFont’s letter spacing?

From iOS 6 you can use NSAttributedString in UILabel. In attributed string you can use attribute NSKernAttributeName to set letter spacing NSMutableAttributedString* attrStr = [[NSMutableAttributedString alloc] initWithString: @”Test test test test “]; [attrStr addAttribute:NSKernAttributeName value:@(4.0) range:NSMakeRange(0, attrStr.length)]; UILabel* label = [[UILabel alloc] initWithFrame:CGRectMake(0, 300, 300, 100)]; label.attributedText = attrStr;