how do I restrict UIButton title text from spilling over

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how do I restrict UIButton title text from spilling over

Hi there,

New to posting here but got many really useful bits of help already.

I am shoving some text into a UIButton title ( UIButton setTitle: forState: ) I want only the first bit of the text to be displayed (ie only amount that fits). Currently, I am getting extra text spilling over into the view.

Is there any easy way to help stop the text from overflowing or do I have to implement my own word wrap algorithm to micromanage the amount of text I set the Title to?

iPhone SDK already implemented the algorithm and there are a number of options. There is a lineBreakMode property which you can use. You can use UILineBreakModeTailTruncation as the value. However, this property is Deprecated in iOS 3.0. You need to use titleLabel in OS 3.0

taskinoor 2010-09-06 11:37:00

Hi Taskinoor, Not quite sure how this helps.... I can truncate the end of a line but I want lines to wrap until they get to the bottom of the button.

Tudor 2010-09-06 11:49:41

u can set numberOfLines of titleLabel to more than one.

taskinoor 2010-09-06 12:29:20

Basically titleLabel is an UILabel. So you can do everything that you can do with a normal label. Hope it helps.

taskinoor 2010-09-06 12:30:31

Thanks. Problem solved.

Tudor 2010-09-06 12:43:35

I was expecting a vote, at least :-)

taskinoor 2010-09-06 13:58:37

Can't you set a maximum number of lines to the associated titleLabel ?

rano 2010-09-06 12:14:48

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