Attributed strings for title and/or description labels?

[alexcosmin]

Hey! Great component, behaves awesome.

One question though: would it be possible to use attributed strings for the title text and/or description text of an intro page?
Let's say I would like to have a description text as String with a link where link would be underlined.

var string = NSMutableAttributedString(string: "String with a link")
let linkRange = NSMakeRange(14, 4)
let linkAttributes : [NSObject: AnyObject]? = [NSUnderlineStyleAttributeName: NSUnderlineStyle.StyleSingle.rawValue]
string.setAttributes(linkAttributes, range: linkRange)

var page2 = EAIntroPage()
page2.desc = string

Last line from above produces the error Cannot assign a value of type 'NSMutableAttributedString' to a value of type 'String!'.

My goal is to have a tappable portion (also underlined) of a description text, that opens a link with the browser.

I think in order to achieve this, the description label should be exposed in EAIntroPage.h, so I could set its attributedText property.

Any input?

[ealeksandrov]

Hey,
good idea. But I don't really like exposing UI elements, how about just supporting attributed strings in desc and title properties of EAIntroPage?

Will try this out on next week.

[alexcosmin]

@ealeksandrov Supporting attributed strings in the properties of EAIntroPage would be perfect.
Thank you for your quick reply!

[StormFactory]

@ealeksandrov I wanted to follow up on this. I'm guessing that @alexcosmin wants to be able to add text that has links to a Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. That's what I'm looking to do as well. In my case instead of a direct link, I want to be able to use @selector to be able to call a block of code where I can then call another viewController or in Alex's case a link.

[timbroder]

@ealeksandrov I'm looking to do this as well. Any word on supporting attributed strings? Thanks

[ealeksandrov]

This is certainly in plans for future release but I can't guarantee any exact estimates. PRs welcome :)

[timbroder]

I'll try to find some time in the next week or so (we're launching in a few weeks, this might be right after that).

Do you have an opinion on moving desc to an attributed string and breaking backwards compatibility, or have both options side by side?

[ealeksandrov]

1. I'm ok with breaking backward compatibility if you provide nice API solution.
2. Anyway it shouldn't work only with NSAttributedString - this will require more boilerplate code for 90% of use cases.

[timbroder]

roger