iOS: Bold and Italic on the same word
Question
Background: I have been trying to display a sentence with Bold and Italic font as well as normal ones.
Question: How can I display something like this "Hello, my name is Byte". Notice that Byte is both bold and italic, while other words remains normal.
I have tried: I think coreText should be able to do something along the line, I just have not been able to find the correct way to do it. I also used TTTAttributeLabel and cannot make it both bold and italic. I have Three20 loaded, just do not know which or what to use. Webview does not work with my background.
As a reply to Carles Estevadeordal:
UIWebView *webView = [[UIWebView alloc]initWithFrame:CGRectMake(10, 360, 300, 40)];
[webView setBackgroundColor: [UIColor clearColor]];
[webView loadHTMLString:[NSString stringWithFormat:@"<html><body style=\"background-color: transparent;\">Hello, my name is <b><i>Byte</b></i></body></html>"] baseURL:nil];
[self.view addSubview:webView];
This is exactly the code, I used. It displayed white background.
Solution
After a good night sleep, I found a way to do it using TTTAtributedlabel. Here is how:
TTTAttributedLabel *attLabel = [[TTTAttributedLabel alloc]initWithFrame:CGRectMake(x, y, xx, yy)];
NSString *text = @"Hello, my name is Byte";
[attLabel setText:text afterInheritingLabelAttributesAndConfiguringWithBlock:^(NSMutableAttributedString *mutableAttributedString) {
//font helvetica with bold and italic
UIFont *boldSystemFont = [UIFont fontWithName:@"Helvetica-BoldOblique" size:10];
CTFontRef font = CTFontCreateWithName((__bridge CFStringRef)boldSystemFont.fontName, boldSystemFont.pointSize, NULL);
NSRange boldRange = [[mutableAttributedString string] rangeOfString:@"Byte" options:NSCaseInsensitiveSearch];
[mutableAttributedString addAttribute:(NSString *)kCTFontAttributeName value:(__bridge id)font range:boldRange];
CFRelease(font);
return mutableAttributedString;
}];
I still do not have a way to add 2 attributes (ie: bold and italic separately) into the same word/letter. But this does the trick.
OTHER TIPS
In case you are still interested in a CoreText solution to this issue :
newFont = CTFontCreateCopyWithSymbolicTraits(fontRef,
self.textSize,
NULL,
kCTFontBoldTrait | kCTFontItalicTrait,
kCTFontBoldTrait | kCTFontItalicTrait);
[attrString addAttribute:(NSString*)kCTFontAttributeName
value:(id)newFont
range:[copyString rangeOfString:customText.text]];
You can use this where sender is instance of UIButton
sender.titleLabel.font=[UIFont fontWithName:@"Helvetica-BoldOblique" size:18.0f];
To add two attributes (this is non ARC code):
#define kLabelFontSize 16.0
NSString labelString = @"Let's slide loudly";
[self.tttLabel setText:labelString afterInheritingLabelAttributesAndConfiguringWithBlock:^NSMutableAttributedString *(NSMutableAttributedString *mutableAttributedString) {
UIFont *boldSystemFont = [UIFont boldSystemFontOfSize:kLabelFontSize];
CTFontRef boldFont = CTFontCreateWithName((CFStringRef)boldSystemFont.fontName, boldSystemFont.pointSize, NULL);
if (boldFont) {
[mutableAttributedString addAttribute:(NSString *)kCTFontAttributeName value:(id)boldFont range:NSMakeRange(6, 11)];
CFRelease(boldFont);
}
UIFont *italicSystemFont = [UIFont italicSystemFontOfSize:kLabelFontSize];
CTFontRef italicFont = CTFontCreateWithName((CFStringRef)boldSystemFont.fontName, italicSystemFont.pointSize, NULL);
if (italicFont) {
[mutableAttributedString addAttribute:(NSString *)kCTFontAttributeName value:(id)italicFont range:NSMakeRange(12, 18)];
CFRelease(italicFont);
}
}];
return mutableAttributedString;
}];
If the sentence has a fixed format the easiest solution is to use 2 different UILabels, one with the normal font and the other one with a Bold and Italic font set.
If the sentence is dynamic then you should use a UIWebView object as it was a lavel and load a simple webpage with your text and the < b > < i > < /i > < /b > fields set at the spot when you want it bold and italic like:
[myWebViewLabel loadHTMLString:[NSString stringWithFormat:@"<html><body style=\"background-color: transparent;\">Hello, my name is <b><i>Byte</b></i></body></html>"] baseURL:nil];
I hope it helps.