iOS: Bold and Italic on the same word
Background: I have been trying to display a sentence with Bold and Italic font as well as normal ones.
Question: How can I display something like this "Hello, my name is Byte". Notice that Byte is both bold and italic, while other words remains normal.
I have tried: I think coreText should be able to do something along the line, I just have not been able to find the correct way to do it. I also used TTTAttributeLabel and cannot make it both bold and italic. I have Three20 loaded, just do not know which or what to use. Webview does not work with my background.
As a reply to Carles Estevadeordal:
UIWebView *webView = [[UIWebView alloc]initWithFrame:CGRectMake(10, 360, 300, 40)];
[webView setBackgroundColor: [UIColor clearColor]];
[webView loadHTMLString:[NSString stringWithFormat:@"<html><body style=\"background-color: transparent;\">Hello, my name is <b><i>Byte</b></i></body></html>"] baseURL:nil];
[self.view addSubview:webView];
This is exactly the code, I used. It displayed white background.
Answer
After a good night sleep, I found a way to do it using TTTAtributedlabel. Here is how:
TTTAttributedLabel *attLabel = [[TTTAttributedLabel alloc]initWithFrame:CGRectMake(x, y, xx, yy)];
NSString *text = @"Hello, my name is Byte";
[attLabel setText:text afterInheritingLabelAttributesAndConfiguringWithBlock:^(NSMutableAttributedString *mutableAttributedString) {
//font helvetica with bold and italic
UIFont *boldSystemFont = [UIFont fontWithName:@"Helvetica-BoldOblique" size:10];
CTFontRef font = CTFontCreateWithName((__bridge CFStringRef)boldSystemFont.fontName, boldSystemFont.pointSize, NULL);
NSRange boldRange = [[mutableAttributedString string] rangeOfString:@"Byte" options:NSCaseInsensitiveSearch];
[mutableAttributedString addAttribute:(NSString *)kCTFontAttributeName value:(__bridge id)font range:boldRange];
CFRelease(font);
return mutableAttributedString;
}];
I still do not have a way to add 2 attributes (ie: bold and italic separately) into the same word/letter. But this does the trick.