I have a UITableViewCell subclass on which I'm using auto-layout, and I want to get the height of a UILabel subview once the auto-layout process has been completed.
I tried layoutSubviews and getting the frame property of my UILabel, but this seemed to be the old height of the label before it was recycled.
I then tried to override layoutIfNeeded but I found it was never called.
How can I get the frames of my UITableViewCell subviews once auto-layout is completed and the constraints have been applied? Surely this should be really simple!
Assuming that the label is an immediate subview of the table cell's content view, then my quess is that you could access the final, on-screen value of the label's bounds in the layoutSubviews method for the content view of the table cell (rather than the layoutSubviews method of the table cell itself).
However, if your label is not multi-lined, then simply grab the label's height from its attributedText property at anytime as follows:
NSAttributedString *attrString = label.attributedText;
CGFloat labelHeight = ceilf(attrString.size.height);
Alternatively, you could use the label's font property to determine the label's height (again, only if the label is not multi-lined):
UIFont *font = label.font;
CGFloat labelHeight = ceilf(font.lineHeight);
If your label is multi-lined, then the best choice for calculating the line height is as follows:
// but you have to know the label's width
CGFloat labelWidth = …
NSAttributedString *attrString = label.attributedText;
CGRect rect = [attrString boundingRectWithSize:CGSizeMake(labelWidth, FLT_MAX) options:NSStringDrawingUsesLineFragmentOrigin context:nil];
CGFloat labelHeight = ceilf(rect.size.height);
You would calculate the label's width manually. Often it's the main view's bounds width minus some fixed amount for horizontal spacing margins.
Related
Situation
I have a (vertical) UIStackView containing both a plain UIView of height 50 (named sliderView) and a UILabel of height 36 defined in my storyboard. The label's alpha property is initially set to 0.0 to make it invisible.
In the controller's viewDidLoad I use UIViewController Containment to add another view controller's view to as a subview of sliderView. This new subview does not necessarily match sliderViews height. It might actually a fair bit taller.
At first, this setup looks fine. Once I make the label visible, I see that it still starts at a y-position of 50. So, the sliderView did not automatically stretch to use it's new child's height. Makes sense.
Question
I thought that I could easily just call sizeToFit on sliderView to make those two heights fit. Unfortunately, this does not seem to work. Am I misunderstanding something here? Thanks!
Use following method to get the CGSize required for NSString text.
- (CGSize)getHeightForText:(NSString *)text havingWidth:(CGFloat)widthValue andFont:(UIFont *)font {
CGSize size = CGSizeZero;
if (text) {
CGRect frame = [text boundingRectWithSize:CGSizeMake(widthValue, CGFLOAT_MAX) options:NSStringDrawingUsesLineFragmentOrigin attributes:#{ NSFontAttributeName:font } context:nil];
size = CGSizeMake(frame.size.width, frame.size.height+20.0f);
}
return size;
}
Here width parameter is the width of your label and font is the font specified for your label. Call CGSize.height to get the height.
I have a situation where i have following view layout.
-UIViewcontroller
-SCrollView
-UIView(outer)
-buttons
-labels
-UIView(inner)
-labels
-buttons
-buttons
the inner UIView height can be any longer as content inside is dynamically added.
So the main issue is i can not scroll till the end of the content, instead i can only scroll till the height of inner UIView.
NOTE - I am using auto layout
Any help is much appreciated.
Thanks
You should change the frame of your inner view dynamically based on the content you are adding. According to your inner view hierarchy, you have label and button. You might be setting some dynamic text on label and also doing some manipulation with button . Use the following method to get the height of the text ,
- (CGSize)getHeightForText:(NSString *)text havingWidth:(CGFloat)widthValue andFont:(UIFont *)font {
CGSize size = CGSizeZero;
if (text) {
CGRect frame = [text boundingRectWithSize:CGSizeMake(widthValue, CGFLOAT_MAX) options:NSStringDrawingUsesLineFragmentOrigin attributes:#{ NSFontAttributeName:font } context:nil];
size = CGSizeMake(frame.size.width, frame.size.height);
}
return size;
}
Here font is the font you set to button and label. Call this method by passing the text added on label and button. CGSize has a height property , add height value of label and button. Now set this sum height to innerView by calling innerView.frame.size.height = <height>. This increase the height of your innerView based on content inside that.
Put all your buttons in the bottom inside a container view and add the following constraints to the outerView (assuming that the new container you've added is called "buttonContainer"):
A vertical spacing constraint between the bottom of innerView and the top of the buttonContainer.
A vertical spacing constraint between the bottom of the buttonContainer and the bottom of the outerView.
Horizontal spacing constraints between between the buttonContainer and outerView to force it to full width.
When using AutoLayout, you have to have enough constraints to properly define the contentSize of the scrollView.
For more information about using AutoLayout with UIScrollView, check out the following links by Apple:
Working with Scroll Views
UIScrollView and Autolayout
I have a lot of labels stacked up for a contact info screen. If any of the labels are empty, I would love to zero out their height and have them occupy no space to avoid empty space on the screen. However, I have created the screen in storyboard and the labels have been assigned heights and y values.
Here is code I've been trying to use to alter label height but cannot get it to work. Perhaps it is designed to work only for labels created programmatically and the storyboard settings override what I am doing here.
NSString *string = #"some text";
CGSize maximumLabelSize = CGSizeMake(280,1000);
// use font information from the UILabel to calculate the size
CGSize expectedLabelSize = [string sizeWithFont:myLabel.font constrainedToSize:maximumLabelSize lineBreakMode:NSLineBreakByWordWrapping];
// create a frame that is filled with the UILabel frame data
CGRect newFrame = myLabel.frame;
// resizing the frame to calculated size
newFrame.size.height = expectedLabelSize.height;
// put calculated frame into UILabel frame
myLabel.frame = newFrame;
Is there a way to get the height of labels created in storyboard to zero out if they are empty?
you can override the following method of the view containing your label and do something like that:
-(void) layoutSubviews {
myLabel.frame = CGRectZero;
}
This method is in order to allow to layout the subviews or you view. Now I don't know If you have used contraints to define the height of your label. If so you should change in the same way the height of your label. Note the in the above example I used CGRectZero.
I had a look on SO before asking this question. All the questions are about adjusting the height of a UILabel and not its width. I tried alternative methods but it did not work such as [label sizeToFit];. Is it possible to adjust the width of a label based on its text? I create my label in a UITableViewCell in story board. I want to be able to adjust its width based on the text that it is assigned. I dont want to resize the font size.
I set the text of the label in CellForRowAtIndexPath.
Examples would be great please.
Thanks in advance :)
Update 1: I have a custom cell that I am making in Storyboard so not programmatically. I set the contents of each cell in CellForRowAtIndexPath, for example, myLabel.text = recipe.name. The name label is quite small, however I would like to extend its width based on the length of the text, not truncate the tail or shrink the size of the text.
Update2: I have a lot of other UIElements in the cell. So I have a label in the top left, top right, bottom left, bottom right, and a picture in the middle, there default is 120 because they have a background color. I set it small the there is not a huge amount of empty space in the label.
Get the size of the string:
//Replace FLT_MAX with the maximum height/width you want the label to be, if no maximum leave as FLT_MAX.
CGSize stringSize = [YOUR_STRING sizeWithFont:YOUR_FONT constrainedToSize:CGSizeMake(FLT_MAX, FLT_MAX) lineBreakMode:NSLineBreakByWordWrapping];
Then size your label:
[YOUR_LABEL setFrame:CGRectMake(0, 0, stringSize.width, stringSize.height)];
In iOS 7 sizeWithFont is deprecated, use boundingRectWithSize instead:
NSDictionary *stringAttributes = [NSDictionary dictionaryWithObject:YOUR_LABELS_FONT
forKey: NSFontAttributeName];
CGSize stringSize = [text boundingRectWithSize:CGSizeMake(FLT_MAX, FLT_MAX)
options:NSStringDrawingTruncatesLastVisibleLine |
NSStringDrawingUsesLineFragmentOrigin
attributes:stringAttributes context:nil].size;
CGSize maxSize = CGSizeMake(250, CGFLOAT_MAX); //250 is max desired width
CGSize textSize = [Label.text sizeWithFont:Label.font constrainedToSize:maxSize];
Label.frame = CGRectMake(0, 0, textSize.width, 15); // desired Bounds
Using above code you can get frame size for perticular text, & then resize label accordingly
You don't need to set explicit width for UILabel. UILabel provides intrinsic content size when used with autolayout. If you add constraints that provide the label's x,y position(Top Space constraint + Leading Space constraint), autolayout will be able to determine its width height based on the content.
I have a label in custom cell in table view.
I want to change cell height and also label height(at first I am showing only 2 line, I want to show more text) after user taped a cell,
I am able to change cell height based on cell content, but unfortunately I cannot change label height, :((
I've read tons of stackoverflow answers, but still nothing.
it is believed that this would work:
CGSize labelSize = [#"Hello World!" sizeWithFont:[UIFont systemFontOfSize:17] constrainedToSize:CGSizeMake(label.frame.size.width,MAXFLOAT) lineBreakMode:NSLineBreakByWordWrapping];
but this is deprecated in iOS 7; can any one please help me in resizing my label in cell?
If you want the height of your label relative to the height of your cell and you use Storyboard, you should determine the size of your label with constraints in relation to the ContentView of the cell. Just set the top and bottom distance from your label to the ContentView and no additional height for the label.
If you dont know how to set Storyboard and constraints, this might help: https://developer.apple.com/library/ios/documentation/UserExperience/Conceptual/AutolayoutPG/AutoLayoutbyExample/AutoLayoutbyExample.html
UITableViewCell lays out it's content in -layoutSubviews. Therefore, if you want to simply have a custom layout logic, you need to subclass UITableViewCell and override the -layoutSubviews method. It's a good idea to call super anyway before applying your logic, though.
You may use something like this to get UIlabel size
-(CGFloat)getLabelSize:(UILabel *)label fontSize:(NSInteger)fontSize
{
NSDictionary *attributesDictionary = [NSDictionary dictionaryWithObjectsAndKeys:
[UIFont systemFontOfSize:fontSize], NSFontAttributeName,
nil];
CGRect frame = [label.text boundingRectWithSize:CGSizeMake(270, 2000.0)
options:NSStringDrawingUsesLineFragmentOrigin
attributes:attributesDictionary
context:nil];
CGSize size = frame.size;
return size.height;
}