Current take on hero. Needs to be refactored and placed into a protocol.

MVMCoreUI/Atoms/Views/Label.swift

@@ -25,6 +25,7 @@ public typealias ActionBlock = () -> ()
     /// Set this to use a custom sizing object during updateView instead of the standard.
     public var sizeObject: MFSizeObject?
     public var scaleSize: NSNumber?
+    public var hero: Int?
     
     // Used for scaling the font in updateView.
     private var originalAttributedString: NSAttributedString?
@@ -562,6 +563,17 @@ extension Label {
         clauses = []
         Label.setUILabel(self, withJSON: json, delegate: delegateObject, additionalData: additionalData)
         originalAttributedString = attributedText
+        
+        hero = json?["hero"] as? Int
+    }
+    
+    func noticeBounds(_ rect: CGRect, color: UIColor) -> UIView {
+        
+        let view = UIView(frame: rect)
+        view.layer.borderColor = color.cgColor
+        view.layer.borderWidth = 1.0
+        
+        return view
     }
     
     public func setAsMolecule() {

MVMCoreUI/Templates/MoleculeListTemplate.swift

@@ -88,6 +88,38 @@ open class MoleculeListTemplate: ThreeLayerTableViewController {
         return cell
     }
     
+    open override func tableView(_ tableView: UITableView, willDisplay cell: UITableViewCell, forRowAt indexPath: IndexPath) {
+        
+        cell.layoutIfNeeded()
+        let heroLabel = findHeroLabel(views: cell.contentView.subviews)
+        let rect = Label.boundingRect(forCharacterRange: NSRange(location: heroLabel!.hero!, length: 1), in: heroLabel!)
+        let rectView = heroLabel?.noticeBounds(rect, color: .clear)
+        heroLabel?.addSubview(rectView!)
+        let convert = cell.contentView.convert(rectView!.center, from: heroLabel)
+        
+        cell.accessoryView?.center.y = convert.y
+        rectView?.removeFromSuperview()
+    }
+    
+    // TODO: Write recursively.
+    func findHeroLabel(views: [UIView]) -> Label? {
+        
+        var queue: [UIView] = views
+        
+        repeat {
+            for view in queue {
+                if let label = view as? Label, label.hero != nil {
+                    return label
+                } else if !view.subviews.isEmpty {
+                    queue.append(contentsOf: view.subviews)
+                }
+                queue.removeFirst()
+            }
+        } while (!queue.isEmpty)
+        
+        return nil
+    }
+    
     open override func tableView(_ tableView: UITableView, didSelectRowAt indexPath: IndexPath) {
         if let cell = tableView.cellForRow(at: indexPath) as? MoleculeListCellProtocol {
             cell.didSelectCell?(atIndex: indexPath, delegateObject: delegateObject() as? MVMCoreUIDelegateObject, additionalData: nil)
@@ -111,11 +143,24 @@ open class MoleculeListTemplate: ThreeLayerTableViewController {
         if let tableView = tableView {
             let point = molecule.convert(molecule.bounds.origin, to: tableView)
             if let indexPath = tableView.indexPathForRow(at: point), tableView.indexPathsForVisibleRows?.contains(indexPath) ?? false {
+                //-------------
                 tableView.beginUpdates()
+//                let cell = tableView.cellForRow(at: indexPath)
+//                cell.layoutIfNeeded()
+//                let heroLabel = findHeroLabel(views: cell.contentView.subviews)
+//                let rect = Label.boundingRect(forCharacterRange: NSRange(location: heroLabel!.hero!, length: 1), in: heroLabel!)
+//                let rectView = heroLabel?.noticeBounds(rect, color: .blue)
+//                heroLabel?.addSubview(rectView!)
+//                //        let rect = Label.boundingRect(forCharacterRange: NSRange(location: 46, length: 6), in: self)
+//                let convert = cell.contentView.convert(rectView!.center, from: heroLabel)
+//
+//                cell.accessoryView?.center.y = convert.y
+                /// ------------
                 tableView.endUpdates()
             }
         }
     }
+
     
     open override func addMolecules(_ molecules: [[AnyHashable : Any]], sender: UITableViewCell, animation: UITableView.RowAnimation) {
         // This dispatch is needed to fix a race condition that can occur if this function is called during the table setup.