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timpone
timpone

Reputation: 19929

How to make a specific fragment of an NSAttributedString a specific color in Swift

I have a UILabel with an NSAttributedString with the following code:

// just creating from a notification.mainCopy!
var myMutableString = NSMutableAttributedString();
myMutableString = NSMutableAttributedString(string: notification.mainCopy!, attributes: [NSFontAttributeName:UIFont(name: "Helvetica", size: 14.0)!])

// a notification will have a blueMainCopy1 - just a test so no this could be done better
// How to make the blueMainCopy1 blue?
var myItalicizedRangeBlue = (notification.mainCopy! as NSString).rangeOfString(notification.blueMainCopy1!)
let blueFont = UIFont(name: "HelveticaNeue-BoldItalic", size:14.0) // how to make blue
myMutableString.addAttribute(NSFontAttributeName, value: blueFont!, range: myItalicizedRangeBlue)

How would I add information to blueFont to make it blue in this case?

Is there some way to add:

  let blueAttrs = [NSForegroundColorAttributeName : UIColor.blueColor()]

or something?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 121

Answers (1)

matt
matt

Reputation: 534893

You already have this:

let blueFont = UIFont(name: "HelveticaNeue-BoldItalic", size:14.0)
myMutableString.addAttribute(
    NSFontAttributeName, value: blueFont!, 
    range: myItalicizedRangeBlue)

And this:

let blueAttrs = [NSForegroundColorAttributeName : UIColor.blueColor()]

So now just add another attribute:

myMutableString.addAttributes(
    blueAttrs, range: myItalicizedRangeBlue) // or any desired range

Or, combine the attributes first and add them together, if they have the same range:

let blueFont = UIFont(name: "HelveticaNeue-BoldItalic", size:14.0)
let blueAttrs = [
    NSFontAttributeName : blueFont!,
    NSForegroundColorAttributeName : UIColor.blueColor()
]
myMutableString.addAttributes(
    blueAttrs, range: myItalicizedRangeBlue)

Upvotes: 4

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