How to draw underline to a multiline label without using CoreText?

Question

I have been trying to underline a multiline label but I am not able to do that.

I have referred to this link but this doesn't seem to help me.

How can be done without using NSAttributedString and coreText?

You could try uiwebview and use html but no way to do it in simple uilabel — Bushra Shahid, Sep 09 '11 at 06:10
@xs2bush: What if I don't want to use a webview. Is there any other option that I have? — Parth Bhatt, Sep 09 '11 at 07:05
have you tried refering http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2711297/underline-text-in-uilabel/7186610#7186610 — DShah, Sep 25 '11 at 11:59

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Sep 09 '11 at 06:36

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You could use some of these open source projects from GitHub which are like UILabel's but support an attributed string:

TTTAttributedLabel or OHAttributedLabel

answered Sep 09 '11 at 06:36

Joshua

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score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Sep 09 '11 at 07:48

Following steps can be helpful.

Extend UILable OR UIView.
Implement - (void)drawRect:(CGRect)rect
In that method get context using `CGContextRef ctx = UIGraphicsGetCurrentContext();

Set text you want to set using this.

CGContextSetRGBFillColor(context,1.0, 0.0, 0.0, 1.0);
CGContextSetTextMatrix(context,CGAffineTransformMakeTranslation(0,pageSize.height));
CGContextSetTextDrawingMode(context, kCGTextFill);
CGContextSelectFont(context, "Helvetica", 30, kCGEncodingMacRoman);
char *str=(char*)[@"TEXT" UTF8String];
CGContextShowTextAtPoint(context,476/2-200,673/2+100,str,strlen(str));

Set Line using this code.

CGContextSetLineWidth(ctx, 3);
Draw line using this code.

CGContextBeginPath(ctx);
CGContextMoveToPoint(ctx, thisX, thisY);
CGContextAddLineToPoint(ctx, thatX,thatY);
CGContextStrokePath(ctx);

Hope above collected segments of code helps you....

How to draw underline to a multiline label without using CoreText?

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