Vertically align text in a UILabel - iphone

Question

I am new to iPhone,
How do I vertically align my text in the UILabel?
Here is my Code snippet,
UILabel *lbl=[[UILabel alloc]init];
lbl.frame=CGRectMake(10,10,100,100);
lbl.backgroundColor=[UIColor clearColor];
lbl.font=[UIFont systemFontOfSize:13];
lbl.text=#"123456";
[scrollVw addSubview:lbl];
text displayed is in the format of 123456 but i want text should be display vertically like,
6
5
4
3
2
1
Any help will be appriciated.

Answer 1

Its impossible to align the text in UILabel vertically. But, you can dynamically change the height of the label using sizeWithFont: method of NSString, and just set its x and y as you want.
As an alternative you can use UITextField. It supports the contentVerticalAlignment peoperty as it is a subclass of UIControl. You have to set its userInteractionEnabled to NO to prevent user from typing text on it.
EDIT 1
Well instead of a UILabel , Make a UITableView like :-
TableActivityLevel=[[UITableView alloc] initWithFrame:CGRectMake(224, 203, 27, 0) style:UITableViewStylePlain];
TableActivityLevel.delegate=self;
TableActivityLevel.dataSource=self;
TableActivityLevel.autoresizingMask = UIViewAutoresizingFlexibleHeight;
TableActivityLevel.rowHeight = 17;
TableActivityLevel.backgroundColor=[UIColor clearColor];
TableActivityLevel.layer.borderColor = [[UIColor clearColor]CGColor];
TableActivityLevel.separatorStyle = UITableViewCellSeparatorStyleNone;
EDIT 2 Found the method using UILabels too !! :) Check this out....
UILabel *label1 = [[UILabel alloc]initWithFrame:CGRectMake(0.0, 0.0, 10.0, 100.0)];
[label1 setBackgroundColor:[UIColor clearColor]];
[label1 setNumberOfLines:0];
[label1 setCenter:self.view.center];
[label1 setFont:[UIFont fontWithName:#"Helvetica" size:12.0]];
[label1 setTextColor:[UIColor whiteColor]];
[label1 setTextAlignment:UITextAlignmentCenter];
[label1 setText:#"1 2 3 4 5 6"];
[self.view addSubview:label1];

Answer 2

If it just a single lined text as in your example you can use various workarounds. I personally would create a UILabel subclass as follows,
#implementation VerticalLabel
- (id)initWithCoder:(NSCoder *)aDecoder
{
self = [super initWithCoder:aDecoder];
if (self) {
self.numberOfLines = 0;
}
return self;
}
- (void)setText:(NSString *)text {
NSMutableString *newString = [NSMutableString string];
for (int i = text.length-1; i >= 0; i--) {
[newString appendFormat:#"%c\n", [text characterAtIndex:i]];
}
super.text = newString;
}
#end
You now just have to replace
UILabel *lbl = [[UILabel alloc] init];
with
UILabel *lbl = [[VerticalLabel alloc] init];
to get vertical text.

Answer 3

Hi the following code is work well
UILabel *lbl=[[UILabel alloc]init];
lbl.frame=CGRectMake(10,10,10,300);
lbl.backgroundColor=[UIColor clearColor];
lbl.numberOfLines=6; // Use one to 6 numbers
lbl.font=[UIFont systemFontOfSize:13];
lbl.text=#"123456";
NSString *reverse=lbl.text;
NSMutableString *reversedString = [NSMutableString string];
NSInteger charIndex = [reverse length];
while (charIndex > 0) {
charIndex--;
NSRange subStrRange = NSMakeRange(charIndex, 1);
[reversedString appendString:[reverse substringWithRange:subStrRange]];
}
NSLog(#"%#", reversedString);
CGSize labelSize = [lbl.text sizeWithFont:lbl.font
constrainedToSize:lbl.frame.size
lineBreakMode:lbl.lineBreakMode];
lbl.frame = CGRectMake(
lbl.frame.origin.x, lbl.frame.origin.y,
lbl.frame.size.width, labelSize.height);
lbl.text=reversedString;
[scrollview addSubview:lbl];

Answer 4

UILabel *lbl=[[UILabel alloc]init];
lbl.frame=CGRectMake(10,10,10,100);
lbl.backgroundColor=[UIColor clearColor];
lbl.font=[UIFont systemFontOfSize:13];
lbl.text=#"123456";
lbl.numberOfLines = 10;
[self.view addSubview:lbl];

Answer 5

You cant do vertical allignment but use another way to display it
UILabel *lbl=[[UILabel alloc]init];
lbl.frame=CGRectMake(10,10,100,400);
lbl.backgroundColor=[UIColor clearColor];
lbl.font=[UIFont systemFontOfSize:13];
lbl.text=#"1\n2\n3\n4\n5\n6";
[scrollVw addSubview:lbl];