is it possible to make text in the UILabel diferent colour ?

Question

I really wonder if it possible to make some text in the same UILabel in diferent colour and diferent size ? if yes how ?

Please thank you so much for the further help.

Answer 1

Yeah look at this code:

- (IBAction) btnClickMe_Clicked:(id)sender {
    NSString *kw = s.text;

    NSString *encodedkw =  [kw stringByAddingPercentEscapesUsingEncoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding];

    NSString *mms = [NSString stringWithFormat: @"%@", encodedkw];

    if ([mms length] == 0){
        iMessageLabel.text=@"put text";

    } else if ([mms isEqualToString:@"a"]){
        iMessageLabel.text=@"this is a";
    } else if ([mms isEqualToString:@"b"]){
        iMessageLabel.text=@"this is b";
    } else if ([mms isEqualToString:@"c"]){
        iMessageLabel.text=@"this is c";
    }else if ([mms isEqualToString:@"d"]){
        iMessageLabel.text=@"this is d";
    } else if ([mms isEqualToString:@"e"]){
        iMessageLabel.text=@"this is e";
    } else if ([ mms isEqualToString:@"f"]){
        iMessageLabel.text=@"this is f";
    }
}

this is my dictionary app(test app) and i want to make some special colour to the translated text and diferent size also for example.

-A verb this means A

I want tomake "verb" in the bold text. and this is A in the red colur.

I´m very new with this and really dont know if it possible to do like this, and if yes how you do ?

thanks so much

Answer 2

You change the text color like this:

myLabel.textColor=[UIColor blueColor];

You change font like:

myLabel.font= aFont; //a font object you've previously defined.

See UILabel Class Reference.

Edit01: Upon rereading, it appears the OP wants to change text attributes within the same string. In that case, you will need to use CFAttributedString. I haven't used it but I believe it works on the iPhone.

Answer 3

iPhone doesn't have NSAttributedString, and it's pretty obvious that UILabel doesn't have a way to specify per-character attributes. So I think your only answer is to use WebKit (UIWebView).