The new Swift Attributed String looks really neat, but is there a way to use it in UIKit or is it SwiftUI only? UITextViews take an NSAttributedString for their content, so I didn't know if there was a way I was missing for converting the AttributedString into an NSAttributedString.
NSAttributedString is given a new initializer taking an AttributedString.
convenience init(_ attrStr: AttributedString)
You can easily convert an AttributedString to an NSAttributedString:
var astr = AttributedString("Hello, world!")
if let range = astr.range(of: "world") {
astr[range].font = .boldSystemFont(ofSize: 22)
}
label.attributedText = NSAttributedString(astr)
Oh, you're right! it wasn't showing up in my autocomplete so I thought maybe the two were incompatible
Hi. Quick question. How do you do the opposite? How do you convert NSAttributedString into AttributedString. For instance, in case you want to add more attributes to the text of a UITextView.
NSAttributedString is given a new initializer taking an AttributedString.
convenience init(_ attrStr: AttributedString)
You can easily convert an AttributedString to an NSAttributedString:
var astr = AttributedString("Hello, world!")
if let range = astr.range(of: "world") {
astr[range].font = .boldSystemFont(ofSize: 22)
}
label.attributedText = NSAttributedString(astr)
Oh, you're right! it wasn't showing up in my autocomplete so I thought maybe the two were incompatible
Hi. Quick question. How do you do the opposite? How do you convert NSAttributedString into AttributedString. For instance, in case you want to add more attributes to the text of a UITextView.
How do you convert
NSAttributedStringintoAttributedString.
Also using an initialiser:
let ns: NSAttributedString = … something …
let a = try AttributedString(ns, including: \.uiKit)
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Thanks! I found the solution after posting the message, but instead of a key path I was using the data type directly, as in AttributeScopes.UIKitAttributes.self. This is a better implementation.