Swift. UILabel text alignment

Question

I create my UILabel in swift:

let label = UILabel(frame: CGRect( x: 50, y: 50, width: 100, height: 50))

setting properties seems to be easy:

label.textColor = UIColor.redColor()

How to implement enum types like textAlignment? In Objective C it was

label.textAlignment = NSTextAlignmentCenter;

but in swift it doesn't seem to work.

score 172 · Accepted Answer · edited Jul 17 '18 at 06:54

172

These are now enums.

You can do:

label.textAlignment = NSTextAlignment.center;

Or, for shorthand:

label.textAlignment = .center;

Swift 3

label.textAlignment = .center

edited Jul 17 '18 at 06:54

Mitesh Khatri

answered Jun 04 '14 at 09:57

Cezary Wojcik

Got it! my mistake was that i was writing .center instead – Thorax Jun 04 '14 at 11:09
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Could you link to the documentation ? Since as I can see they had to rewrite those enums from ObjC. – Paweł Brewczynski Jun 29 '14 at 20:00
This answer helped. I tried .Center and it didn't look right. Checked enums and used .Justified and it looked better enum { NSTextAlignmentLeft = 0, NSTextAlignmentCenter = 1, NSTextAlignmentRight = 2, NSTextAlignmentJustified = 3, NSTextAlignmentNatural = 4, }; – Hblegg Sep 18 '15 at 23:50

score 2 · Answer 2 · answered Jun 04 '14 at 10:02

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Enums in Swift are different than they are in Objective-C.

What in Objective-C would be NSTextAlignmentCenter is in Swift NSTextAlignment.Center.

answered Jun 04 '14 at 10:02

yoeriboven

score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Feb 21 '15 at 05:34

0

For Centre use, myLabel.textAlignment = NSTextAlignment.Center

answered Feb 21 '15 at 05:34

Ankit Goyal

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