numberOfLines of UILabel doesn't work within cell - iphone

Question

All,
I am very new to iphone programming. In the following code, I want the text to show all of the text within the comment label but right now it is truncating it. numberofLines is not working right either. Right now it is doing this. "My name is Fred and I aint dead..." but I want it to display the full text "My name is Fred and I aint dead yet so let me live" even if it has to be on multiple lines.
- (CGFloat)tableView:(UITableView *)tableView heightForRowAtIndexPath:(NSIndexPath *)indexPath
{
return 80.0;
}
- (UITableViewCell *)tableView:(UITableView *)tableView cellForRowAtIndexPath:(NSIndexPath *)indexPath
{
UITableViewCell *cell = nil;
cell = [self.allCells objectForKey:[NSNumber numberWithInt:indexPath.row]];
if(!cell)
{
cell = [[[NSBundle mainBundle] loadNibNamed:#"UserCell2" owner:nil options:nil] lastObject];
cell.backgroundColor = [UIColor clearColor];
cell.accessoryType = UITableViewCellAccessoryNone;
cell.selectionStyle = UITableViewCellSelectionStyleNone;
[self.allCells setObject:cell forKey:[NSNumber numberWithInt:indexPath.row]];
}
GSAsynImageView *imgView = (GSAsynImageView*)[cell viewWithTag:1000];
UILabel *lblTitle = (UILabel*)[cell viewWithTag:1001];
UILabel *lblComment = (UILabel*)[cell viewWithTag:1003];
UILabel *lbltime = (UILabel*)[cell viewWithTag:1004];
//lblComment setLineBreakMode:NSLineBreakByWordWrapping];
//lblComment.numberOfLines = 0;
//lblComment.lineBreakMode = UILineBreakModeCharacterWrap;
if(self.arrComments.count==0)
{
imgView.hidden = YES;
lblTitle.text = nil;
lblComment.text = nil;
lbltime.text = nil;
if(indexPath.row==1)lblTitle.text = #"No comments yet";
}
else
{
imgView.hidden = NO;
NSDictionary *dcUser = [self.arrComments objectAtIndex:indexPath.row];
NSString *strBio = [dcUser objectForKey:#"CommentTxt"];
NSString *strDisplayName = [dcUser objectForKey:#"CommenterDisplayName"];
NSString *imgName = [dcUser objectForKey:#"ImageName"];
NSString *usernamex = [dcUser objectForKey:#"CommenterUserName"];
if([imgName isKindOfClass:[NSString class]])
{
if([imgName rangeOfString:#"facebook"].location!=NSNotFound || [imgName rangeOfString:#"twimg"].location!=NSNotFound)
[imgView loadImageFromPath:imgName];
else
[imgView loadImageFromPath:[NSString stringWithFormat:#"%#images/%c/%#/50x50%#",WEBSERVER,[usernamex characterAtIndex:0],usernamex,imgName]];
}
lblTitle.text = strDisplayName;
lblComment.text = strBio;
lbltime.text = [self getDateTitle:[dcUser objectForKey:#"Date"]];
}
return cell;
}

Answer 1

try this bellow code and add in your cell..
UILabel * lblTitle = [[UILabel alloc]init];
[lblTitle setFrame:CGRectMake(110, 31, 200, 50)];
lblTitle.text = #"your Text ";
lblTitle.lineBreakMode = UILineBreakModeWordWrap;// add this line
lblTitle.numberOfLines = 0;// add this line
lblTitle.font = [UIFont fontWithName:#"Helvetica" size:12];
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Answer 2

try this...
UILabel * label = [[UILabel alloc]init];
[label setFrame:CGRectMake(cell.frame.origin.x , cell.frame.origin.y, cell.frame.size.width, cell.frame.size.height)];
label.text = #" Text to be displayed in label ";
label.lineBreakMode = UILineBreakModeWordWrap ;// Wrap at word boundaries
label.numberOfLines = 0;// this line include multiple lines
[cell addSubview:label];

Answer 3

I think it probably because the size of the string you wanna show on the label exceeds the size of that label

Answer 4

You can use the properties of UILabel to increase the number of lines.
Like UILabel* para = [[UILabel alloc]init];
para.numberoOfLines = 10;
and also try changing para.lineBreakMode

Answer 5

Increase the height of the label and make the number of line to 2 for the particular label.
try this code,
lblComment.numberofLines = 2;
[lblComment setFrame:CGRectMake(100,20,200,70)];

Answer 6

The easiest way to do this is in a storyboard or xib. You can add your label (and anything else you want) to the custom cell you get automatically when you have a table view. Make sure your label has a specific width set, and that it has constraints to the top and bottom of the cell (make sure you set number of lines to 0). If you have these, the label will expand with the height of the cell, which you set in tableView:heightForRowAtIndexPath:.