I have one view in my app that has a lot of writing on it.
It's important that this writing stay in the "one lines" that it is.
The problem is sometimes each line changes length causing the text to scale down in size.
So how would I make this view also supporg landscape?
You have three choices :
1) Let the text span more than one line
2) Truncate the text instead of scaling it
3) Accept that the text is going to scale.
You've already said in your question that you don't want (1) or (3) so you need to do option (2).
You can turn off text scaling by setting this on your label :
myLabel.adjustsFontSizeToFitWidth = NO;
and choose how you want the text to be trucated, for example this :
myLabel.lineBreakMode.UILineBreakModeMiddleTruncation;
will trim from the center of your label i.e. 'This_is_..._text' - it adds the ... for you instead of scaling the text.
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The text in my WKInterfaceLabel is way too long and causes the text to be cut off with dots at the end. I know for UILabel for iOS you can easily resolve this issue by enabling clip mode. I don't believe there is any way for me to resolve this for watchkit. This is going to force me to use an Image if I can't prevent the text from being cut off. Any tips or suggestions is appreciated.
You have a couple options depending on how you want the view to respond. In your interface story board select your label and open the attributes inspector.
Your first option is to change the font to a smaller size. This is more for a static label that you want to style and leave set.
Your second option is to adjust the min scale value, changing this will automatically shrink the text to fit the window up to the value provided. For example if your font size is 12pt and you set the scale to .5, the font will shrink up to 6pt before appending the ellipsis (...).
Your third option is to set the number of lines to 0 (or a higher number). This will move the text down onto the next line.
Set the number of lines to 0 and ensure the label and any containing groups are set to fit content.
if you want your font size adjust according to label size follow this method
in WKInterfaceTable attribute inspector set min scale to 0
like in screen shoot
Result before Min scale = 0
Result after Min scale = 0
Note: your no of lines also set to 1
I have a UILabel which has 4 lines. Its font size is 15 & autoshrink is enabled. It's minimum font size is 10.
When my text is too long then it automatically starts from first line. But when my text is too small then it starts from middle line.
How can I make sure the text always starts from first line, whether it's too long or too short?
I think what you're looking for is more a UITextView than a UILabel.
From Apple's doc :
UITextView displays a region that can contain multiple lines of editable text.
The editable part is optional. You can disable it, along with scrolling if you want to be close to a UILabel.
I have long text and 2 textViews.
I need to insert this text to 2 textViews(they have no scrolling).
It's like book pages(first page is a one textView, second page is a another textView).
So, question is: how to determine which text length I need insert to first textView?
You can set the complete text to the first textView, calculate the visible text range and set the remaining text to the second textView. An alternative is to manually calculate the range of the text that will be visible in the first textView, however it requires ugly recursion with sizeWithFont that i can't believe is so fast, i'd follow the first way.
See this answer to learn how to get the visible text range.
First figure out length of each line, font, and how many lines you can fill into the each textview. Use following to do this
CGFloat stringWidth = [text sizeWithFont:[UIFont fontWithName:your_textview_font_name size:your_textview_font_size]].width;
Then use substrings operation.
Shouldn't be difficult to do this!
I want to draw a text with different colors and the only way that I've found for do it is to split every piece of string-color in differents UILabels, so currently now I have four UILabels one after another, lets say, label1, label2, label3 and label4.
The problem with that is with the size and the position of every labels, I've not found an automatic way for do it.
The only way is:
Set the text inside all the labels
Ask for the width of all the labels with this new text
Resize all the labels with this new width
Move label2 to label1.x + label1.width, and so on
This is really the only way in iPhone for do that?
I came from Android and there is a "wrap_content" property for every view and "relative_layouts" where you can define something like.. put label2 rightOf label1. So I'm looking of something simple and automatic like that, but in iPhone.
Thanks!
Depending on your application, you might want to consider a single UIWebView instead. Then you can style the content of it with HTML and CSS.
I want to have a tableview create rows that look like this:
value1 item1 container1
value10 item10 container10
value100 item100 container100
value2 item2 container2
What I am trying to show is that the first word (value) will have a set length of 12 and then the second word (item) will have a set length of 10 and then the last word (container) is just tagged on at the end.
I am pulling these from a SQLite database and don't want to use multiple lines, but read in a strictly formatted structure like this.
You can layout a custom UITableViewCell in Interface Builder, where you drag two UILabel views onto the Content View and set their size appropriately (Notice that the letters may vary in width, so even though you know it's 10 chars in length, you don't know the maximum width, please keep that in mind)
Then you just fill the open space at the right of a cell with another UILabel, layout it to cover the open space and set it to autoresize it's width and set the right margin to be fixed.
There are quite a few tutorials available on how to use the custom cell in your tableView, I can recommend you this screencast. It explains how you can initialize the custom cell and how you can access the custom labels.
It sounds like you want something like an old-fashion text display in which then nth character in row zero always lines up the nth character in every row.
Even using carefully positioned labels in a custom tableviewcell, you will have to strictly control the specific font and its size if you want all the characters to line up in fixed width column. You will need a fixed width font to begin with and you will have to set the size precisely.
You might want to consider whether this is necessary. iPhone users are used to propionate width text displays. Very precise columns of text might make it difficult to discern rows. I would test first with just a simple table before spending the time tweaking the columns.