Why is my sizeWithFont:constrainedToSize:lineBreakMode: always returning zero?

Question

I'm trying to make a UITableViewCell that adjusts its height based on the length of a string it's displaying, but am getting hung up on this method.

Here's what I've got:

NSString *text = @"A really long string in here";
CGSize theSize = [text sizeWithFont:[UIFont boldSystemFontOfSize:18.0f] constrainedToSize:CGSizeMake(265.0f, MAXFLOAT) lineBreakMode:UILineBreakModeWordWrap];
NSString *stringHeight = [NSString stringWithFormat:@"%d", theSize.height];

No matter what, stringHeight displays as 0. What am I missing?

Thanks!

Answer 1

CGFloats correspond to the C float data type; the proper format specifier for them is %f:

 NSString *text = @"A really long string in here"; 
 CGSize theSize = [text sizeWithFont:[UIFont boldSystemFontOfSize:18.0f] constrainedToSize:CGSizeMake(265.0f, CGFLOAT_MAX) lineBreakMode:UILineBreakModeWordWrap];
 NSString *stringHeight = [NSString stringWithFormat:@"%f", theSize.height];

Also, you should use CGFLOAT_MAX instead of MAXFLOAT