vds_ios/VDS/Extensions/UILabel.swift
Matt Bruce 5820401c50 refactored label
Signed-off-by: Matt Bruce <matt.bruce@verizon.com>
2022-08-04 10:24:43 -05:00

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//
// UILabel.swift
// VDS
//
// Created by Matt Bruce on 8/4/22.
//
import Foundation
import UIKit
extension UILabel {
/**
Provides a text container and layout manager of how the text would appear on screen.
They are used in tandem to derive low-level TextKit results of the label.
*/
public func abstractTextContainer() -> (NSTextContainer, NSLayoutManager, NSTextStorage)? {
// Must configure the attributed string to translate what would appear on screen to accurately analyze.
guard let attributedText = attributedText else { return nil }
let paragraph = NSMutableParagraphStyle()
paragraph.alignment = textAlignment
let stagedAttributedString = NSMutableAttributedString(attributedString: attributedText)
stagedAttributedString.addAttributes([NSAttributedString.Key.paragraphStyle: paragraph], range: NSRange(location: 0, length: attributedText.string.count))
let textStorage = NSTextStorage(attributedString: stagedAttributedString)
let layoutManager = NSLayoutManager()
let textContainer = NSTextContainer(size: .zero)
layoutManager.addTextContainer(textContainer)
textStorage.addLayoutManager(layoutManager)
textContainer.lineFragmentPadding = 0.0
textContainer.lineBreakMode = lineBreakMode
textContainer.maximumNumberOfLines = numberOfLines
textContainer.size = bounds.size
return (textContainer, layoutManager, textStorage)
}
}