Swift : Append Characters in Attributed String

Question

I want to change color to all characters in string. But my code is giving just last character in string. I want to append characters in attributed string. How can I do this ?

My Code :

func test(){
            var str:String = "test string"

            for i in 0...count(str)-1{
                var test = str[advance(str.startIndex, i)]
                var attrString = NSAttributedString(string: toString(test), attributes: [NSForegroundColorAttributeName: rainbowColors()])
                label.attributedText = attrString
            }
    }

score 4 · Answer 1 · edited May 23 '17 at 11:52

In this case you don't need to append characters if you want each character to have the same rainbow color. You could do the following:

label.attributedText = NSAttributedString(string: str, attributes: [NSForegroundColorAttributeName: rainbowColors()])

If you want to append characters you need to use NSMutableAttributedString. It has a method called append.

Given the fact that you want a different color for each index do the following:

var str:String = "test string"

var attributedString = NSMutableAttributedString()
for (index, character) in enumerate(str) {
  attributedString.appendAttributedString(NSAttributedString(string:  String(character), attributes: [NSForegroundColorAttributeName: colorForIndex(index)]))
}

label.attributedText = attributedString

colorForIndex is a function you need to implement to get the rainbow color for that particular index

func colorForIndex(index: Int) -> UIColor {
  let color = // your function to get the color
  return color
}

If you need help to implement that function take a look at this question iOS rainbow colors array

Worked well ! I didn't know enumerate function. Thanks for helping. You rock ! :) — jorjj, Jul 27 '15 at 01:30

Swift : Append Characters in Attributed String

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