It appears that this has been asked and not answered before, but the question is ancient and there have been many Xcode / iOS updates since then, so I am going to give this a shot.
I have a simple view controller laid out. There is a single View that contains a read-only Text View with some instructions on how to use the app. I would like to intersperse some images in the scrolling text view to refer to the buttons and other elements that I am referring to in the instructions.
Here is the view:
So for instance, when the instructions refer to the green start button, I would like to insert an image of that button inline with the rest of the text.
I am using Xcode 5.1.1 and of course storyboards. Thanks in advance for any suggestions.
You can use the NSAttributedString with NSTextAttachment to attach an image to the text
NSMutableAttributedString *attributedString = [[NSMutableAttributedString alloc] initWithString:#"press to start"];
NSTextAttachment *imageAttachment = [NSTextAttachment new];
imageAttachment.image = [UIImage imageNamed:#"AnyImage.png"];
NSAttributedString *stringWithImage = [NSAttributedString attributedStringWithAttachment:imageAttachment];
[attributedString replaceCharactersInRange:NSMakeRange(5, 1) withAttributedString:stringWithImage];
self.textView.attributedText = attributedString;
Related
I am trying to help changing some styling in an IOS-application developed using Swift and with a storyboard.
This is how the page look
and the product owner would like to make the findtoilet#findtoilet.dk larger, but it seems that changing the font and styling in the storyboard has no effect because IOS decides the formatting of the email
Any ideas?
Using this
// Define general attributes for the entire text
NSDictionary *attribs = #{
NSForegroundColorAttributeName: self.label.textColor,
NSFontAttributeName: self.label.font
};
NSMutableAttributedString *attributedText =
[[NSMutableAttributedString alloc] initWithString:text
attributes:attribs];
Will take the style defined for the label on the storyboard and apply that, thus overruling IOS-styling for a tappable link
I'm trying to add an image to an attributed string:
NSTextAttachment *locationIcon = [[NSTextAttachment alloc] init];
locationIcon.image = [UIImage imageNamed:#"location-pin-icon"];
NSAttributedString *iconString = [NSAttributedString attributedStringWithAttachment:locationIcon];
[string appendAttributedString:iconString];
NSAttributedString *locationNameString = [[NSAttributedString alloc] initWithString:#"some text" attributes:linkAttributes];
[string appendAttributedString:locationNameString];
Then I simply set myLabel.text = string; (where myLabel is a TTTAttributedLabel)
location-pin-icon is a valid image (I've checked it in debugging too). However, the location pin icon is not being displayed in the label (the following "some text" is displayed perfectly though, and linkAttributes is just a collection of system font with a custom blue color). I've also tried manually setting bounds to the text attachment, or leaving a space before the text, but nothing seems to work.
What am I doing wrong?
It was apparently due to implementation of TTTAttributedLabel. The library seems broken. When I've switched from it, the attachment started displaying correctly.
I'm trying to get a custom view in an attributed string to be displayed on a textView. I am able to add an image with an NSTextAttachment, but it isn't what I want. I have a custom view that supports Gif's and Animated PNGs that I'd like to display between text.
Example:
text text text [customView] text [customView] text. <- In text view, preferably in attributed string
I would love some guidance as to where I should search specifically. So far I've seen related issues...
Subclass NSTextAttachment: How to subclass NSTextAttachment?
Use NSTextAttachmentContainer..?
NSTextAttachmentCell - Only OSX
Do manipulation in the text view
First, use NSAttributedString or NSMutableAttributedString to show your RichText in subviews (such as UITextView/UILabel)
Then, use NSTextAttachment to replace your image-script in text.
NSString *egText = #"hello [this_is_an_img_script]";
NSMutableAttributedString * destStr = [[NSMutableAttributedString alloc] initWithString:egText];
NSTextAttachment *attachment = [[NSTextAttachment alloc] initWithData:nil ofType:nil];
attachment.image = [UIImage imageNamed:[this_is_an_img_script]];
NSAttributedString *textAttachmentString = [NSAttributedString attributedStringWithAttachment:attachment]; //make your image to an attributedString
[destStr replaceCharactersInRange:range withAttributedString:textAttachmentString];
at last: [YourLabel(or YourTextView) setAttributedString:destStr];
BTW: if you use the YYkit for the RichText, you cannot use the YYAttachMentString to replace NSAttachMentString, these are different things, the UITextView(UILabel) cannot load the YYAttachMentString.
I'm looking for some way to show my gifs with the UITextView (because YYKit cannot load and preview netimage with a url, YYKit always show empty which should be a netImage, cripes!)
I have a UILabel that will contain various lengths of text. I need to place an image in the upper left corner of the text and have the text wrap around it. How can I do this? All I could find was using a UITextView which I don't want to use since it's static text.
This is a perfectly reasonable use of a UITextView. Your reasons for hesitation to use it are unclear. You can make the UITextView non-editable and non-selectable; the user will not know that it is a UITextView as opposed to to a UILabel.
If you don't like that solution, then what I would do is use, instead of a UILabel, a custom view that draws the text. You can draw the text with Text Kit and thus you can take complete charge of how the text draws. In particular, you can cause it to wrap however you like, including not drawing the text in the corner (exclusion path on the text container).
You can achieve this using NSTextAttachment and attributed text.
NSMutableAttributedString *myText = [[NSMutableAttributedString alloc] initWithString:labelStr];
NSTextAttachment *attachment = [[NSTextAttachment alloc] init]
attachment.image = yourImage;
NSAttributedString *attachmentLock = [NSAttributedString attributedStringWithAttachment:attachment];
NSMutableAttributedString *lockString = [[NSMutableAttributedString alloc] initWithAttributedString:myText];
//set your image range within the text. modify it till you get it right.
NSRange range = NSMakeRange(0,[labelStr length]);
[lockString replaceCharactersInRange:NSMakeRange(range.location, 1) withAttributedString:attachmentLock];
yourLabel.attributedText = lockString;
I am trying to make my emoji keyboard as default keyboard.I
want to add my images (sticker) to the textview.I am using xcode6 that allow to make our keyboard as default keyboard for all app.I can add text to the textview when click on my sticker.but not able to add that sticker to my textview.
In short,I am trying to get access of textview to add images.
Your solutions are appreciated.Thanks in advance.
You need to use NSAttributted String:
NSMutableAttributedString *attributedString = [[NSMutableAttributedString alloc] initWithString:#"like after"];
NSTextAttachment *textAttachment = [[NSTextAttachment alloc] init];
textAttachment.image = [UIImage imageNamed:#"whatever.png"];
NSAttributedString *attrStringWithImage = [NSAttributedString attributedStringWithAttachment:textAttachment];
[attributedString replaceCharactersInRange:NSMakeRange(4, 1) withAttributedString:attrStringWithImage];
source: iOS 7 TextKit - How to insert images inline with text?