IOS: string stressed and bold

Question

I have an array of labels

[labelsArray objectAtIndex:1] ????

I want to change label text style to bold and stressed. How can I do that?

I think you cant make string bold. What do you want to do ? – Viktor Apoyan Apr 20 '11 at 10:50 — Viktor Apoyan, Apr 20 '11 at 10:50
excuse me it's an array of label – cyclingIsBetter Apr 20 '11 at 10:55 — cyclingIsBetter, Apr 20 '11 at 10:55
Nobody knows what you mean by stressed; do you mean inset? – Jonathan Sterling Apr 20 '11 at 14:03 — Jonathan Sterling, Apr 20 '11 at 14:03
excuse me...I would say underlined – cyclingIsBetter Apr 20 '11 at 14:16 — cyclingIsBetter, Apr 20 '11 at 14:16

score 1 · Accepted Answer · edited May 23 '17 at 11:55

I do not understand what you mean by stressed but if you want to make it bold you can write:

UILabel *label = [labelArray objectAtIndex:1];
label.font = [UIFont fontWithName:@"Helvetica-Bold" size:18];

The size and font type is ofcourse up to you. Here are the list: http://www.prepressure.com/fonts/basics/ios-4-fonts

EDIT for comment: I have never done that, but after some searching I found this post at stackoverflow. You may try that, but there is no "built-in" function for this as far I know.

Underline text in UIlabel

score 1 · Answer 2 · edited Apr 20 '11 at 14:05

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If there are different fonts in labels, that you don't know you can try this:

NSInteger i = 0;
for ( ... )
{
    UILabel *label = [labelArray objectAtIndex:i];
    UIFont *oldFont = label.font;
    NSString *fontName = [NSString stringWithFormat:@"%@-BoldItalic", oldFont.fontName];
    label.font = [UIFont fontWithName:fontName size:oldFont.pointSize];
}

Hope this'll help!

edited Apr 20 '11 at 14:05

Jonathan Sterling

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answered Apr 20 '11 at 13:18

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IOS: string stressed and bold

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