How to align and move two labels programmatically?

Question

I have to use two sequential label, like:

Title: New Title

But title is a localized string that change his length in different languages. How to programmatically move the UILabel of New title at the end of Title ? With autoLayout the old solutions found on StackOverflow don't seem to be working.

Show the code where you set whether the frame or the auto layout constraints. — The dude, Jun 23 '14 at 07:54
Check this [link](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/13152262/iphone-adjust-uilabel-width-according-to-the-text) out ,might be helpful ! — nikhil84, Jun 23 '14 at 08:32

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Jun 23 '14 at 07:58

Use one string

  NSString *str = [NSString stringWithFormat:@"Title:%@   Newtitle:%@", Title, newtitle];

If color of title and text are different use attributed string like this example -

   NSMutableAttributedString *str = [[NSMutableAttributedString alloc]  initWithString:@"Its an test attributed string."];
    [str addAttribute:NSBackgroundColorAttributeName value:[UIColor yellowColor]       range:NSMakeRange(3,5)];
[str addAttribute:NSForegroundColorAttributeName value:[UIColor greenColor]      range:NSMakeRange(10,7)];
  [str addAttribute:NSFontAttributeName value:[UIFont fontWithName:@"HelveticaNeue-Bold" size:20.0] range:NSMakeRange(20, 10)];

Yeah, that's exactly what I am looking for. BTW iOS is kinda creepy to do this things :\ — Alessio Crestani, Jun 23 '14 at 08:33

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Jun 23 '14 at 07:49

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set the second label frame after the first frame. label2 x point will be label1 x point + lable1 length.

answered Jun 23 '14 at 07:49

pqteru

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I know, but it doesn't work. With Auto Layout you can't set in `viewDidLoad` the frames. – Alessio Crestani Jun 23 '14 at 07:52

score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Jun 23 '14 at 07:52

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Why don't you use just one label with text is formated:

mylabel.text = [NSString stringWithFormat:@"%@: %@", Title, newtitle];

answered Jun 23 '14 at 07:52

meaholik

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Because the first part is in Light blue an bold, the second part in in red and normal font. – Alessio Crestani Jun 23 '14 at 07:53
@fustalol then use NSAttributedString and you can set different colors for different ranges. – The dude Jun 23 '14 at 08:28

score 0 · Answer 4 · edited Jun 23 '14 at 08:22

try to add NSLayoutConstraints between the leading of label2 and trailing of label1 with the constant

value = 0;

[self.view addConstraint:[NSLayoutConstraint constraintWithItem:label2
                                                  attribute:NSLayoutAttributeLeading
                                                  relatedBy:NSLayoutRelationEqual
                                                     toItem:label1
                                                  attribute:NSLayoutAttributeTrailing
                                                 multiplier:1
                                                   constant:0]];

score 0 · Answer 5 · answered Jun 23 '14 at 08:40

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Try this as well:

[label1 setText:@"I am label1"];
[label2 setText:@"I am label2"];

CGRect frame = label1.frame;

[label2 setFrame:CGRectOffset(frame, frame.size.width, 0)];

answered Jun 23 '14 at 08:40

NeverHopeless

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How to align and move two labels programmatically?

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