Adding a border, corner radius, and shadow to a uiview. This solution had no type checkingyou had to type the property you wanted to modify by hand and often had to look up what it was called. Create a uilabel with a rounded rect background like in the iphone mail app. If alternatively you would be willing to avoid wrapping the uilabel with a uiview, you could use uitextview to enable the use of uiedgeinsets padding or subclass uilabel to support uiedgeinsets. But im still clueless on how i position this data, or add more to it. Hi, im trying to add a padding on the left and right side of the text in a label see label with red background in screenshots. Now, instead of adding our gradient as a sublayer we will set it as a mask. Auto layout advanced techniques for ios 8 and 7 using xcode 6 on storyboard. Sep 15, 2015 auto layout can be a bit of a pain sometimes. Auto layout advanced techniques for ios 7 and 8 using. Resize the height of a uilabel according to the content. Create a uilabel with a rounded rect background like in. Matlab calls the uifigure function to create the figure.
Oct 16, 2014 i am trying to get rounded edges but this is not working in my code, do you have any ideas why. Uilabel subclass, which additionally allows shadow blur, inner shadow, stroke text and fill gradient. First, youll fix the spacing between the buttons on the bottom row. We want to keep the width fixed, but make height variable. Auto layout takes advantage of this when determining what size a view should be. Create a uilabel with a rounded rect background like in the. Dec 04, 2015 labels with padding in ios there is no standard way of creating uilabels with padding around the text in ios.
Storyboard, contribute to lucioleeinsetslabel development by creating an account on github. There is no standard way of creating uilabels with padding around the text in ios. Back in 2014, i wrote a blog post on expanding userdefined runtime attributes in xcode where i added a border, corner radius, and shadow to a uiview using interface builders userdefined runtime attributes. A view, such as a uilabel, will know what size its content is. Resize the height of a uilabel according to the content xamarin, ios ios xamarin resizeheigthwithtext. This tutorial teaches programmatic layout pl by demonstrating conversion of an apps user interface ui from interface builder ib to pl definitions. Hi, im trying to do something really simple in my application but im not sure why its not working. Forms label in order to give it a border and some padding.
If alternatively, you would be willing to avoid wrapping the uilabel with a uiview, you could use uitextview to enable the use of uiedgeinsets padding or subclass uilabel to support uiedgeinsets. Width can either be constrained to both ends or kept fixed in terms of fixed number for width. Sep, 2014 uilabel subclass that makes setting padding really easy. Jul 18, 2017 back in 2014, i wrote a blog post on expanding userdefined runtime attributes in xcode where i added a border, corner radius, and shadow to a uiview using interface builders userdefined runtime attributes. So i built a custom class uiborderlabel to automate the process. However, i want it have more padding and for the edges to be a little rounded if possible.
The gradient can consist of multiple colors, which have to be saved as uicolor objects in the gradientcolors array. Use the line break mode property to control how the label splits the text into multiple lines, and the truncation behavior associated with the final line. Sep, 2014 in this article ill explain how to easily fit a uilabel of variable height into a uiscrollview using auto layout, for those scenarios where a uitextview wont do. Michiganlabs is a software development company in grand rapids, michigan, specializing in ios app development, web development, and android app development. If youre using styled text, assigning a new value to this property applies the font to the entirety of the string in the attributed text property. For all the scenarios described in this post, we will not simply use uilabel, but uilabel added as a subview to uiview.
Luckily enough, there are a few of us who can more or less deal with it when we need to. I created a uilabel in the ib then created an outlet for it and named lblname the labels original width is 100. Such as the uiview on the right with a specific background color. Ib is descended from a visual ui editor originally created for the nextstep operating system. Again, xcode adds the necessary code to viewcontroller.
This outlet is similar to the text field, except for its name and its type which is uilabel, to match the type of object thats in the storyboard. If you want to stick with uilabel, without subclassing it, mundi has given you a clear solution. The width for the uilabel will be based on the other connected constraints for this uilabel. How to programming with uilabel how to build software.
By default, you cant pad or add margins to a uilabel. And usually thats not really necessary because you should be using auto layout to position the label and the space around them. In a story board, if you place the label on top of the image view it will appear that way. Because auto layout will make sure the labels frame and the scrollviews contentsize will be the ones you want, regardless of orientation and device size. Setting a value of 0 allows the label to use as many lines as necessary to lay out the text within the labels width. Programmatically change uilabel width xamarin community. For more convenience, gradientstartcolor and gradientendcolor will fill up the array accordingly. It is under the view did load but i included my entire code in case you needed it.
So using the storyboard, i have a main title at the top of one of my views. To silence this error add the bottom constrained spacing to the. In the storyboard, theyre visual aids to help show how changing various. This is the use case where uilabel content is variable. Sign in sign up instantly share code, notes, and snippets. A storyboard is an xmlbacked representation of the ui elements of, and connections among, one or more view controllers and their views.
Just make sure that you have the proper constraints on both the image view and the label so that they would be on top of each other and it should work. Using the ib approach, developers drag ui elements from the object library onto a storyboard or xib and then set most or all auto layout constraints and uielement properties using the ib ui. In the viewdidappear method i tried to change the labels width to 320 with the following code. The third item in my swift tool belt is a couple of extensions on uilabel. Youll learn about universal storyboards, size classes, and layout.
Contribute to dataxpressuicountinglabel development by creating an account on github. Feb 16, 2015 how to set padding for uitextfield in swift is published by alexander deplov in simple swift programming tips. Nov 25, 2017 the best approach to add padding to a uilabel is to subclass uilabel and add an edgeinsets property. Try transferring everything from plists to the storyboard. If you want to apply the font to only a portion of the text, create a new attributed string with the desired style information and associate it with the label. Then, click the add new constraints button and add a top spacing of 20 to. Specify the maximum number of lines for the label to use when laying out the text with the number of lines property. You can force the text of any uitextview to have padding i.
When your storyboard has many view controllers objects and also many uilabel, you may find it hard to locate the specific uilabel object. How to set padding for uitextfield in swift is published by alexander deplov in simple swift programming tips. The label has a background set so just changing its origin wont do the trick. But when i stretch the label in my storyboard so that it appears to have padding, and then i restart the simulator, it doesnt add padding to it. How to set padding for uitextfield in swift the easiest way. It would be ideal to inset the text by 10px or so on the left hand side. Converting an app from interface builder to programmatic. Dec 08, 2016 again, xcode adds the necessary code to viewcontroller. Apr 05, 2012 by default, you cant pad or add margins to a uilabel. Aug 04, 2017 the third item in my swift tool belt is a couple of extensions on uilabel. Connect the table view from the storyboard to your viewcontroller as a new iboutlet.
What the hell is content hugging and content compression resistance priorites. The best approach to add padding to a uilabel is to subclass uilabel and add an edgeinsets property. Unfortunately, we dont have any contentedgeinsets property we can set on a uilabel as we do have on a uibutton. Constraints are easy enough to understand but what about the other things. A repository for research on paddingmarginlayout of uiview. Adjust uilabel to change its frame according to its content. My question is, should i just set the default font size to something really large so that it will always take up the top of the view whether its on an ipad or iphone.
For instance, look at the uilabel below, it looks centrally placed in portrait view right. I ran into a situation at work today, where i was already using a uilabel to display text, but it was styled in a way that really needed some. You treat it just like a regular uilabel, except you can specify a numeric value for each. Ive set the minimum font size to around 30 and then i autofit the label to the text. If you want auto layout to continue to make the height and width constraints itself, you could make a subclass of uilabel and override the intrinsiccontentsize and sizethatfits to achieve.
The border was no problem, accessing properties on control. However, there are some occasions when you have a uilabel and just need some padding around it. Change class of uilabel in your storyboard, xib to paddinglabel. In this episode, lets build facebook newsfeed from scratch all programmatically without using the storyboard. Working with xcode auto layout in swift and ios projects twilio. Label with padding around text issue with uilabel on ios. I did this with a friend of mine and it only took about 20 minutes for the code to build and run successfully on his own laptop. Sign up a repository for research on paddingmarginlayout of uiview. This site contains user submitted content, comments and opinions and is for informational purposes only.
Layer in onelementchanged, but i found that adding padding between the border and text was not so straightforward. Rose is a fulltime ios engineer and she likes to think about software. These extensions will allow easy access to modify the edge insets on a label the extra padding all around the text. Your goal is to center a title and subhead using two uilabel s in the top of. How to pad a uitextview by setting its text container inset free. I need to create a uilabel with a background color, and id like to add some left padding but every solution ive found around here seems like a nasty hack which is the standard way to achieve this from ios 5 ahead. Nov 19, 2019 adds animated counting support to uilabel. Hi kevin, in order to correctly calculate what the height of the newly stretched uilabel will be, we need to set the number of lines to zero, this means that the number of lines can be anything, by using zero it lets the text fill as many lines as it needs, its sort of a wildcard. Make uilabel appear on top of uiimageview in storyboard. Centering a uilabel within that uiview, adding a uiview on the left with padding, custom spacing between cells. You have to apply custom insets fancy for margins in order to do so, and its repetitive and annoying in practice.
The starting and ending points of the gradient are in the range 0 to 1, where 0, 0 is the topleft and 1, 1 the bottomright of the text. Apple disclaims any and all liability for the acts, omissions and conduct of any third parties in connection with or related to your use of the site. Using subclassed uilabel as backing control with xamarin. In this article ill explain how to easily fit a uilabel of variable height into a uiscrollview using auto layout, for those scenarios where a uitextview wont do why. Theres also an extension to add a rotation transform to a label. Use a single view application and run code in viewcontroller. How to create a uilabel with custom insets miscellanea. Ive added two elements to the viewcontroller in our storyboard a uilabel for the title and a uiimageview for a logo. The default spacing between most ios ui elements is 8 points, and 20. Auto layout is a relative and absolute placement tool to create perfect. A simple uilabel subclass that adds padding insets, autoheightresizing, and vertical alignment. How to fade out content using gradients in ios stable kernel. How to programming with storyboard how to build software. Uilabel subclass that makes setting padding really easy.
Post the renderer for android works as expected, but not on ios. Im looking to set the left insetmargin of a uilabel and cant find a method to do so. May 31, 2016 this almost works, but because the invert of amountopen will only have values between 0 and 44, we need to add some padding which ive chosen to be 10 so that when the header is completely collapsed, the uilabel is 10 points from the top of the header. You then set the desired insets and the label will be drawn accordingly. Any help, links to documentation, suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Programmatically change uilabel width xamarin community forums.
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