TTTAttributedLabel links are being styled but not clickable - ios

Question

I've been looking into a solution to getting clickable links working. I can get this working when using UITextView + NSAttributedString but it just doesn't autolayout properly when it's a UITableViewCell.
Now I've added the TTTAttributedLabel to my project and it styles the views just perfectly. The links also turn blue and are underlined.
However clicking them does nothing. I did implement TTTAttributedLabelDelegate on my controller, made the label in the storyboard implement MyLabel (Which just extends TTTAttributedLabel and has the delegate options since I want them to fire inside the same function). For now I've set the controller to be the delegate I was thinking it might not work pointing to itself.
But none of these functions get fired, I got breakpoints and logs in it.
I Implemented didSelectLinkWithUrl and didLongPressLinkWithUrl.
func attributedLabel(label: TTTAttributedLabel!, didSelectLinkWithURL url: NSURL!) {
Debug.log("link clicked")
}
func attributedLabel(label: TTTAttributedLabel!, didLongPressLinkWithURL url: NSURL!, atPoint point: CGPoint) {
Debug.log("link long clicked")
}
Outlet
#IBOutlet weak var content: MyLabel!
MyLabel
import UIKit
import TTTAttributedLabel
class MyLabel : TTTAttributedLabel, TTTAttributedLabelDelegate {
override func didMoveToSuperview() {
if (self.delegate == nil) {
self.delegate = self
}
self.enabledTextCheckingTypes = NSTextCheckingType.Link.rawValue
self.userInteractionEnabled = true
}
func attributedLabel(label: TTTAttributedLabel!, didSelectLinkWithURL url: NSURL!) {
Debug.log("link clicked")
}
func attributedLabel(label: TTTAttributedLabel!, didLongPressLinkWithURL url: NSURL!, atPoint point: CGPoint) {
Debug.log("link long clicked")
}
Anyone know what I could be missing?
Update
I found out that just pasting in an url f/e http://example.com becomes active and is actually clickable and the didSelectLinkWithUrl becomes clickable, allthough I need an attributed string and it's based on a HTML String.

Answer 1

The implementation of setAttributedText: doesn't update the linkModels array, while the implementation of setText: does. I believe this is what causes your issue.
To resolve, set the label's text property instead of the attributedText property.
The docs also include this warning:
TTTAttributedLabel can display both plain and attributed text: just pass an NSString or NSAttributedString to the setText: setter. Never assign to the attributedText property.
The docs also show this example usage:
TTTAttributedLabel *attributedLabel = [[TTTAttributedLabel alloc] initWithFrame:CGRectZero];
NSAttributedString *attString = [[NSAttributedString alloc] initWithString:#"Tom Bombadil"
attributes:#{
(id)kCTForegroundColorAttributeName : (id)[UIColor redColor].CGColor,
NSFontAttributeName : [UIFont boldSystemFontOfSize:16],
NSKernAttributeName : [NSNull null],
(id)kTTTBackgroundFillColorAttributeName : (id)[UIColor greenColor].CGColor
}];
// The attributed string is directly set, without inheriting any other text
// properties of the label.
attributedLabel.text = attString;

Answer 2

Aaron Brager is correct!
I used to have the same problem, but I got it fixed in Swift by replacing the line:
label.attributedText = attributedString
with the line:
label.setText(attributedString)
This is accepted by the compiler because the setText method accepts AnyObject.
I also increased the font of the attributed string of the link so it captures my tap and it is working now!
I used this for the truncation link, this is the whole part:
label.lineBreakMode = .ByTruncatingHead
label.attributedTruncationToken = NSMutableAttributedString(string: "... Show more", attributes: [NSForegroundColorAttributeName: UIColor.cueCyan(), NSLinkAttributeName: readMoreLink, NSFontAttributeName: UIFont.formFont(.Light, size: fontSize+24)!])
label.userInteractionEnabled = true
label.delegate = self