I need to format text in a label like this:
username: some text from this user. This will
create additional lines of text that will go
on and on and on.
Where "username" is bold. This will go into a UILabel, which is in a custom table cell. Is there a way to get this type of layout?
For this relatively simple case, you might be able to fake it. Have one label with the bold username, and another label with the plain text in the same position. Insert enough spaces before the plain text to leave room for the username. You can use UIStringDrawing methods to measure the bold text and the spaces.
CGSize usernameSize = [theUsername sizeWithFont:theBoldUsernameFont];
CGSize spaceSize = [#" " sizeWithFont:thePlainCommentFont];
NSString *indentedComment = [NSString stringWithFormat:#"%*s%#" , (int)ceil( usernameSize.width / spaceSize.width ) , "" , theComment];
If you use plain UILabel it's not available. Use two labels for this task.
You need to use either a UIWebView or CoreText to do this kind of advanced text layout. A web view has a lot of overhead but is most flexible and you can't use it effectively in a UITableView cell. CoreText is low level and not that well documented. You could ditch the table view and just lay out the table with CSS and HTML in the web view, which is how I do it.
You can still use a UITableViewCell but have the cell use a UIWebView subview. Set up a custom cell subclass with a clever setter method that allows you to send nsstrings to the method with turns those into a pretty formatted view.
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I am new in iPhone application development. How to set the bold in part of the text in UILabel.
Example:
Step 1- Separate all parts of the plant (stem, roots, leaves, flower etc..)
Step 2- Only test one part at a time
I need like example in UILabel
Thanks in advance
Implement TTTAttributedLabel or OHAttributedLabel and use:
NSMutableAttributedString *theText = theLabel.text;
[theText applyFontTraits:NSBoldFontMask range:NSMakeRange(0,[text length])];
theLabel.text = theText;
to bold specific parts of the string (change the NSRange as required).
For now, you're going to have to use a third party component, since there's no attributed string support in UILabel.
Try https://github.com/mattt/TTTAttributedLabel/
In order of increasing complexity, here's some other solutions:
Alternatively, use a WebView with HTML.
Alternatively, use a CATextLayer, this is only slightly more work than adding a UILabel, but you need a little understanding of how layers work vs. views.
Alternatively, draw your strings yourself using CoreText.
I would like to let the user fill in some data to be submitted.
So I have a table with 7 cells, each of them are labeled so they know what data goes into the field.
I though about putting a UITextField in each cell, but it looks like its out of place and the user can enter up to 255 chars, so also it doesn't display the data so nicely.
Can anybody recommend a good way to handle this kind of thing, whats the best solution in your experience?
Maybe hiding the UITextField after they are done entering data and display the data in some other manner?
Kind Regards,
-Code
You can customize a UITextField in several different ways to make it not look out of place to you: things such as location, size, alignment, font, font size, background color, and etc. You can have the text field appearance change depending on whether the text field is in the selected table row or not.
You can also have a UITextField delegate pre-check any changes to the text field, and prohibit entering a text length greater than some number of characters, or illegal/unwanted characters, etc.
do I need separate UILabel in a custom UIView to have separate UILabel lines in a UITableViewCell?
That is, if I want to have a TableViewCell that has all text, but the text needs to contain 4 separate rows for 4 separate strings (e.g. Name, Title, Description, Location), and each these separate rows could include a wrap around.
To ask the question the other way around, is there way with a normal UITableViewCell using it content view and single text label, to force Carriage Return/New Line points at the end of each of the four strings? Oh yes, and the cell height will need to be calculated for each Cell as it may vary (just in case this is significant)
The answer to the last question: NO. (Answer to the title: YES.)
You can build a cell in its own NIB file. An exercise I suggest if you've never done it.
Layout the size/location/resize functionality as you like it.
your table view controller can be the owner of the file,
add an outlet to the TV controller of loadedCell, and call load nib
every time you want to alloc a new cell,
i suggest tagging each of the cell labels, and accessing them
that way, and setting the loadedCell value to nil after loading it,
p.s. a UILabel often wraps text undesirably, or is hard to layout in a cell to look good, consider the other values of lineBreakMode for your labels
p.p.s. it will employ a text shortening behavior depending on adjustsFontSizeToFitWidth and minimumFontSize (taking this and lineBreakMode into consideration)
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I have some text field which, after a decoding, set some UILabel. The problem is that if the user leave some empty field , I don't like to see that space between the labels. I enclose a picture for a better understanding. thanks in advance.
instead of the view below use a uitableview with custom cells
Each custom cell having a label ...and add a cell if and only if u have a valid string in a textfeild..set userinteraction=NO and set some backgroung color to match ur view..
just put that string in the uilabel in the custom cell...thats it..
I currently have a custom UITableViewCell which contains a few labels, and an image.
The "main" label is used to display people's names. Currently, I'm styling it in bold text.
What I'd like to do (to gain some space and readability), is to mimic the Address Book app cell style, that is: first name in light text, and family name in bold text.
Is there a way to do this using the same UILabel? Or, should I use 2 different UILabels? How should I layout them, without knowing their sizes?
Thanks in advance for your assistance!
See this sample code from atebits:
http://atebits.cachefly.net/blog/FastScrolling/FastScrolling.zip
It does something similar to what you want.
You can use the built-in UITableViewCellStyleValue2. From the UITableViewCell.h header file:
UITableViewCellStyleValue2, // Right aligned label on left with blue
//text and left aligned label on right (Used in Phone/Contacts)
Pass this into your [[UITableViewCell alloc] initWithStyle:...] method.
I think it's table view cell with UITableViewCellStyleDefault style. If you'd like to use different font attributes then you need to use different labels (because there is no attributed strings yet). To calculate size of these labels you should use following method:
- (CGSize)sizeWithFont:(UIFont *)font minFontSize:(CGFloat)minFontSize actualFontSize:(CGFloat *)actualFontSize forWidth:(CGFloat)width lineBreakMode:(UILineBreakMode)lineBreakMode;
or any relevant from NSString(UIStringDrawing).
Also, you can use custom strings drawing instead of UILabel.