When I am changing the font of a label to anything other than the default, the label's font never changes. I can change the font size but not the displaying font. However, when I double click on the label, I can see what the label's font would look like. Can anyone help me with this?
Not all fonts are available on the iPhone. If you are setting the font to an unavailable one, it will default to helvetica. Search the net for a list of the fonts you can use.
You can reference http://iosfonts.com/ for fonts available for each version of iOS. Fonts outside this list will appear as Helvetica, as jrturton said.
I would suggest expanding the size of the text box, by dragging its outermost edges? Despite having made your changes if the selected font/font size combo is to large for the text box to handle it will remain smaller than what you selected even though when you go into the highlight view it appears correct
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Just Because its in that font selection tool does not mean it will show up on the device
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Windows allows me to set the font size of its text (e.g. in the window title bars and the menus) using a slider in Settings > Accessibility > Text size. I have an important GUI scripting program (written in AutoHotkey) that depends on keeping this font size the same; if the font size changes, then elements on the windows change position and my AutoHotkey script won't click on the correct controls.
However, I cannot tell how to specify this font size other than "the slider looks like it's one-fifth of the way across" or something vague like that. I need to change the font size temporarily but am not sure how I can put the slider back to exactly its current position.
How can I find out what the exact value of the setting of this slider, so I can reproduce it later? For example, is there some registry value that will store the setting of this slider?
I do not need the value to be accessible to my software; this is just so I, as a human, can try to slide the setting back to the way it was before, and if it is not exactly the same value as before, I want to be able to know whether I should nudge the slider up or down in order to get the same exact setting as previously.
I am having trouble making text fields look acceptable when using different typefaces.
See this screenshot taken from a test app I made to demonstrate the problem. It consists of a single XIB, with no code in the delegate or anywhere else. This is on OSX Mavericks with Xcode 5.1.1 but I haven't tried on other versions.
The default system font looks fine in the top text field, as you'd expect. Compare this to the one below: same exact size and shape, all I did differently was change the typeface in Interface Builder. Text is pushed downwards, and descending letters (lowercase pqjg) are clipped. The Menlo example below is also pushed downwards, though not quite as badly.
How do I fix this?
A quick test shows Lucida Grande and Helvetica require 17 pixels, and Menlo requires 19 pixels:
Note that this excludes the border and shadows, so you need your text view to be significantly larger than that to guarantee it will fit.
Interface Builder has been specifically designed for Lucida Grande, it knows it can get away with being too small because that font doesn't use all the space it has available. Doesn't work well with other fonts.
You can resolve this a couple of different ways:
• Enable "Uses Single Line Mode" on the Text Field Panel. When I first
encountered this issue it wasn't obvious that this would automatically
align the text vertically within an NSTextField.
or...
• Simply adjust the size of the NSTextField using the adjustment boxes
that appear after you click on it. You can also adjust them through
the "Control" properties.
I have some difficult time in creating iOS screen to match with visual design provided by design team.
The design team has provided the spacing info for each screen which shows how much space each text needs to be apart from other UI element on the screen. This is attached for your reference. You can see here that the two text labels "Activate Your Account" and "A Verification link...." are placed apart by 25px.
The same thing I am trying to achieve in the storyboard. I am attaching the storyboard screen snapshot for reference.
From this you can see that I cannot keep exactly 25px b/w the two text labels because for the following issue
The text font is custom font and I cannot load the same in storyboard. I have added the font file in the project, but when I try to open it in storyboard for UILabel, it doesn't list out. I am not sure why xcode doesn't show up. This makes me hard to resize the label's frame. If I try to decrease the empty space in the label (upper and lower part of the text), this will make label height less, but when I set the font programmatically, it doesn't fit in this small space.
When I try to increase the height of the label, the text inside the label starts displaying at the center leaving space at the top and bottom of the label frame.
So I want to know how to solve this problem. If anyone had this issues and sorted out, please let me know how to fix this.
Many Thanks
Your designers aren't speccing their designs correctly :) Show them how iOS renders text and have them spec their designs in the same way. This is what we do on the Facebook design team. I mocked up an example for you (each square is 4dp/8px).
http://i.stack.imgur.com/q4tZX.png
I am trying to put a background image into a text-field (it's just a search icon). And it is tiling the image in the text field. Is it possible to turn off the repeating of the image? i don't see anything like that, i'm seeing padding and position for background images but nothing to turn off the tiling of the image. is this not possible in pixate yet?
thanks!
You should be able to set background-size to the size of your text-field so it won't have anything to repeat.
I battled this same problem, and in the end, I found I got what I wanted by using multiple objects. Even if you get the search icon to work right, you're probably going to notice the UITextField doesn't pad the text away from the icon.
Anyway, here's how I ended up doing it so that I had full control over the style.
So you can put your search icon in the UIImageView and then define your text field's style (border, background color, etc.) with the UIView. The UITextField ends up being plain white/transparent, and positioned so that its text doesn't overrun the search icon.
I hope that helps.
I have a pdf template having a multi line textfield.While filling up the textfield at run-time using itext, I want to increase the textfield size so that the entire content is visible.
I know similar questions have been posted previously.e.g. the following link suggests a solution but I am too new to itext to make it work.
How to display floating textfield depending on the text content?
I know setting font size 0 automatically adjust the font size to fit in the text, but that is not an option for me since I can't reduce the font size.
So kindly provide me an workable example if possible.