I have a label which shows the pink area on the screen. However, the word "gender " is not shown in the top line even if it has enough space. Why is it not showing up in the first line itself? What I need
label.text = #"Do you believe in gender equality";
Label
The UILabel is working as intended by preventing an orphaned word so it’s more readable. This was introduced in iOS 11. Apple must disable it for iMessage because they probably intend this behaviour for long articles of text, not text messages.
I've seen fixes including
call sizeToFit on the label after the text has been set
setting UserDefaults.standard.set(false, forKey: "NSAllowsDefaultLineBreakStrategy") // Using this private tricky shortcut may leads appstore rejection.
But none of these are working on iOS 13, simulator (Not tested on devices).
Fix
One tricky solution is - append some spaces or two tabs("\t\t") to the text and set programatically.
Use following code:
label.lineBreakStrategy = []
I've got a few buttons with text inside. If i run the app on an iOS 10 device, it works and shows the text fine. But running the app on iOS 9 the text inside the button is like "squashed" or "compressed"(the text on version 9 is missing the top and bottom part of the text). I'm not sure why this is happening, I've tried messing around with the hugging and compression settings on the UI Builder, but this hasn't really fixed the problem.
Not sure why it works on 10 but not on 9....The image above shows what the text looks like on iOS 9 ONLY!
I'm just seeing if this is happening with anyone else? or if anyone knows how to solve this problem?
I appreciate any help given! Thanks in advance!
You have to use "adjustsFontSizeToFitWidth" property of titleLabel of your button
Example:
myButton.titleLabel.adjustsFontSizeToFitWidth = YES;
There are a few possibilities:
The height of the button during runtime could be wrong. Try setting a border to the button, run and observe the button outline to see if the height is correct.
myButton.layer.borderColor = UIColor.black.cgColor
myButton.layer.borderWidth = 1
If the height is wrong, it means the constraints could be incorrectly set up.
Another possibility might be contentEdgeInsets, titleEdgeInsets properties of the button having larger than intended top and bottom values.
In Xcode 7, I was able to add a UILabel only to the Regular/Regular size-class. I simply selected w: Regular h:Regular below the storyboard and added it to my controller using drag 'n' drop. Once I switched to another size-class, the element was shown as inactive in the document outline on the left. Everything fine.
Now the same approach doesn't seem to work. When I switch to another size-class after the label was added to regular/regular, the UILabel is still active in the document outline and shown when the app is running (on an iPhone for example).
Any pointers or hints more than appreciated! Release notes don't offer any clue. Doesn't look like a wanted behaviour that was mentioned anywhere.
I'm using xcode 6 with storyboard for ios app development.
I have a problem with UILabel in view controllers in storyboard: the text is simple and inlower case, but when I run the app in the simulator or in the device I see the Label text in UPPERCASE.
Labels have no outlets, and cannot be modified programmatically.
some one has a solution? I'd prefer not using IBOutlet and setting text by code..
I had somewhat similar problem. In my case everything(title, lables, button texts, etc.) was in upper case. I found out that "Localization Debugging" was on, so when I had language on iphone which was not supported by localization, it turned words automatically to upper case. When I disabled it, everything worked fine again.
Just go to "Product > Scheme > Edit Scheme" and there select "Run" and disable "Localization Debugging". (Sorry, I don't have enough reputation to post images, otherwise I would put here screen)
Hope it helps
I answer myself fot other people.
Nothing to do with this strange thing. It seems a xcode bug. Sometimes the labels appears uppercased, other times are ok.
I discover a trick that was using the attributed text in storyboard. in this way it works correctly.
Another way is to use a outlet and setting the uilabel.text by code.
Bye
I opened an existing iOS project with Xcode6 beta6, and Xcode lists the following warning for both Storyboard and Xib files:
Automatic Preferred Max Layout Width is not available on iOS versions
prior to 8.0
I tried addressing the warning by setting the width as explicit like below:
Yet this didn't resolve the warnings. How can they be removed?
Update 3:
This warning can also be triggered by labels that have numberOfLines set to anything but 1 if your deployment target is set to 7.1. This is completely reproducible with new single-view project.
Steps to Reproduce:
Create a new single-view, objective-c project
Set the Deployment Target to 7.1
Open the project's storyboard
Drop a label onto the provided view controller
Set the numberOfLines for that label to 2.
Compile
I've filed the following radar:
rdar://problem/18700567
Update 2:
Unfortunately, this is a thing again in the release version of Xcode 6. Note that you can, for the most part, manually edit your storyboard/xib to fix the problem. Per Charles A. in the comments below:
It's worth mentioning that you can pretty easily accidentally
introduce this warning, and the warning itself doesn't help in finding
the label that is the culprit. This is unfortunate in a complex
storyboard. You can open the storyboard as a source file and search
with the regex <label(?!.*preferredMaxLayoutWidth) to find labels that
omit a preferredMaxLayoutWidth attribute/value. If you add in
preferredMaxLayoutWidth="0" on such lines, it is the same as marking
explicit and setting the value 0.
Update 1:
This bug has now been fixed in Xcode 6 GM.
Original Answer
This is a bug in Xcode6-Beta6 and XCode6-Beta7 and can be safely ignored for now.
An Apple engineer in the Apple Developer forums had this to say about the bug:
Preferred max layout width is an auto layout property on UILabel that
allows it to automatically grow vertically to fit its content.
Versions of Xcode prior to 6.0 would set preferredMaxLayoutWidth for
multiline labels to the current bounds size at design time. You would
need to manually update preferredMaxLayoutWidth at runtime if your
horizontal layout changed.
iOS 8 added support for automatically computing
preferredMaxLayoutWidth at runtime, which makes creating multiline
labels even easier. This setting is not backwards compatible with iOS
7. To support both iOS 7 and iOS 8, Xcode 6 allows you to pick either "Automatic" or "Explicit" for preferredMaxLayoutWidth in the size
inspector. You should:
Pick "Automatic" if targeting iOS 8 for the best experience. Pick
"Explicit" if targeting < iOS 8. You can then enter the value of
preferredMaxLayoutWidth you would like set. Enabling "Explicit"
defaults to the current bounds size at the time you checked the box.
The warning will appear if (1) you're using auto layout, (2)
"Automatic" is set for a multiline label [you can check this in the
size inspector for the label], and (3) your deployment target < iOS 8.
It seems the bug is that this warning appears for non-autolayout
documents. If you are seeing this warning and not using auto layout
you can ignore the warning.
Alternately, you can work around the issue by using the file inspector on the storyboard or xib in question and change "Builds for" to "Builds for iOS 8.0 and Later"
To Find the problem label(s) in a large storyboard, follow my steps below.
In xCode's Issue Navigator right click on the error and select "Reveal In Log". (Note: #Sam suggests below, look in xCode's report navigator. Also #Rivera notes in the comments that "As of Xcode 6.1.1, clicking on the warning will automatically open and highlight the conflicting label". I haven't tested this).
This will show the error with a code at the end of your storyboard file. Copy the value after .storyboard
Next, reveal your storyboard as source file.
Search. You should be able to tell what label it is from here quite easily by looking at the content.
Once you find the label the solution that worked for me was to set the "preferred width" to 0.
BTW, you can always quickly get the id of an interface item by selecting the item and looking under the identify inspector. Very handy.
You can fix this issue without opening the storyboard as a source.
This warning is triggered by UILabels if numberOfLines !=1 and deployment target is < 8.0
HOW TO FIND IT?
Go to Issue Navigator (CMD+8) and Select latest built with the warning
Locate the warning(s) (search for "Automatic Preferred Max Layout") and press expand button on the right
Find the Object ID of the UILabel
Open the Storyboard and SEARCH (CMD+f) for the object. It will SELECT AND HIGHLIGHT the UILabel
Set Preferred Width = 0 "Explicit" as others suggested
Solution it's quite simple
Just enable Builds for iOS 8 and Later
Now my Xcode version is 6.1. But I got this warning too. it annoys me a lot . after search again and again.I found the solution.
Reason:You must have set your UILabel Lines > 1 in your Storyboard.
Solution: set your UILabel Lines attribute to 1 in Storyboard. restart your Xcode. It works for me, hope it can help more people.
If you really need to show your words more than 1 line. you should do it in the code.
//the words will show in UILabel
NSString *testString = #"Today I wanna set the line to multiple lines. bla bla ...... Today I wanna set the line to multiple lines. bla bla ......"
[self.UserNameLabel setNumberOfLines:0];
self.UserNameLabel.lineBreakMode = NSLineBreakByWordWrapping;
UIFont *font = [UIFont systemFontOfSize:12];
//Here I set the Label max width to 200, height to 60
CGSize size = CGSizeMake(200, 60);
CGRect labelRect = [testString boundingRectWithSize:size options:NSStringDrawingUsesLineFragmentOrigin attributes:[NSDictionary dictionaryWithObject:font forKey:NSFontAttributeName] context:nil];
self.UserNameLabel.frame = CGRectMake(self.UserNameLabel.frame.origin.x, self.UserNameLabel.frame.origin.y, labelRect.size.width, labelRect.size.height);
self.UserNameLabel.text = testString;
To summarize, for me following the two instructions above to change any instances where numberOfLines = 0 to 1 or greater, and manually adding preferredMaxLayoutWidth="0" to each instance of a label inside the storyboard source fixed all of my warnings.
Since I don't have a 50 reputation Stackoverflow wont let me comment on the second best answer. Found another trick for finding the culprit label in the Storyboard.
So once you know the id of the label, open your storyboard in a seperate tab with view controllers displayed and just do command F and command V and will take you straight to that label :)
I got it working by selecting the original layout I had in the W / H selection. Storyboard is working as expected and the error is gone.
Be also sure that you are developing for iOS 8.0. Check that from the project's general settings.
This is where you should press.
I had this issue and was able to fix it by adding constraints to determine the max with for a label.
When dropping a multiline label in there is not constraint set to enforce the width inside the parent view. This is where the new PreferredMaxWidth comes into play. On iOS 7 and earlier you have to define the max width yourself. I simply added a 10px constraint to the left and right hand side of the label.
You can also add a <= width constraint which also fixes the issue.
So this is not actually a bug, you simply have to define the max width yourself. The explicit option mention in other answer will also work as you are setting this width value however you will have to modify this value if you want the max width to change based on the parent width (as you have explicitly set the width).
My above solution ensures the width is always maintained no matter how big the parent view is.
For some reason, even if changing the iOS Deployment Target to 8.0 or higher, the Xib files don't adopt that change and remain with the previous settings in the File inspector
Therefore, you should change it manually for each Xib
Once done, the warning will disappear :-)