I'm trying hard to find a way to simply add an outline/stroke/contour to my UILabel text. Talking about a stroke around the letters of the text not around the background of a UILabel.
I'm using swift 3 and I'd like to outline my text directly into my subclass: UILabel.
I found multiple answers suggesting this way to do things :
let strokeTextAttributes = [
NSStrokeColorAttributeName : UIColor.black,
NSForegroundColorAttributeName : UIColor.white,
NSStrokeWidthAttributeName : -4.0,
NSFontAttributeName : UIFont.boldSystemFont(ofSize: 30)
]
self.attributedText = NSMutableAttributedString(string: self.text!, attributes: strokeTextAttributes)
But the thing is that it doesn't work. My text is still the same with no outline...
Could anyone help me here ?
That would be a great thing :)
Thanks a lot. Cheers guys.
Here you have class with implementation, copy and paste to playgrond for test:
class StrokedLabel: UILabel {
var strockedText: String = "" {
willSet(newValue) {
let strokeTextAttributes = [
NSStrokeColorAttributeName : UIColor.black,
NSForegroundColorAttributeName : UIColor.white,
NSStrokeWidthAttributeName : -4.0,
NSFontAttributeName : UIFont.boldSystemFont(ofSize: 30)
] as [String : Any]
let customizedText = NSMutableAttributedString(string: newValue,
attributes: strokeTextAttributes)
attributedText = customizedText
}
}
}
//////////// PLAYGROUND IMPLEMENTATION PART /////////
let text = "Stroked text"
// UILabel subclass initialization
let label = StrokedLabel(frame: CGRect(x: 0, y: 0, width: 200, height: 50))
// simple assign String to 'strockedText' property to see the results
label.strockedText = text
label.backgroundColor = UIColor.white
label
Maybe refactoring for this class will be welcomed, but should work for you at this form
As you can see usage is very convenient.