What are good alternatives to UITextAlignmentCenter in iOS 6?

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UITextAlignmentCenter seems to be deprecated in iOS 6. What are my alternatives?

score 103 · Accepted Answer · edited May 23 '17 at 12:07

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For IOS 6 you should use NSTextAlignmentCenter instead of UITextAlignmentCenter:

button.titleLabel.textAlignment = NSTextAlignmentCenter;

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And if you want backward compatibiliy to IOS 5 also you can do this,

#ifdef __IPHONE_6_0
# define ALIGN_CENTER NSTextAlignmentCenter
#else
# define ALIGN_CENTER UITextAlignmentCenter
#endif

edited May 23 '17 at 12:07

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answered Oct 09 '12 at 04:57

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score 9 · Answer 2 · answered Feb 03 '13 at 10:41

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#ifdef __IPHONE_6_0
# define ALIGN_CENTER NSTextAlignmentCenter
#else
# define ALIGN_CENTER UITextAlignmentCenter
#endif

UILabel* label = [[UILabel alloc] initWithFrame:CGRectMake(0, 0, 50, 30)];
label.text = @"There is no spoon";
label.textAlignment = ALIGN_CENTER;
[self addSubview:label];

answered Feb 03 '13 at 10:41

Arash Zeinoddini

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Nice and elegant solution. Thanks for sharing =) – Mark Mooibroek Apr 17 '13 at 07:56

score 7 · Answer 3 · answered May 09 '13 at 09:41

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You can do

newLabel.textAlignment = NSTextAlignmentCenter;

instead of

newLabel.textAlignment = UITextAlignmentCenter;

hope it helps.

answered May 09 '13 at 09:41

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score 4 · Answer 4 · edited Jun 18 '13 at 17:25

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You should use NSTextAlignmentCenter instead according to Apple's documentation.

You should also use NSTextAlignmentLeft and NSTextAlignmentRight instead of UITextAlignmentLeft and UITextAlignmentRight, respectively.

edited Jun 18 '13 at 17:25

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answered Oct 09 '12 at 04:53

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You have a typo. It's: `NSTextAlignmentCenter` – Jason Moore Oct 23 '12 at 08:31

score 2 · Answer 5 · answered Mar 28 '15 at 16:05

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In Swift: NSTextAlignment.Center

answered Mar 28 '15 at 16:05

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What are good alternatives to UITextAlignmentCenter in iOS 6?

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